Candidații lui Starmer vor să atragă stânga Labour prin cheltuieli crescute salariu minim mai mare taxe pe avere renationalizare și reformarea regulilor de disciplină fiscală

Britain faces being dragged to the Left with a rise in spending, taxation, the minimum wage and renationalisation if Keir Starmer is removed from power.Higher public spending, higher taxes, a more generous minimum wage and yet more new rights for workers at the expense of employers are among ideas that have been floated by some of the challengers and their allies.Even before the Prime Minister quits or is forced from No10, the markets have reacted with fear over who might replace him and Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Long-term borrowing costs have surged to a fresh 28-year high and the pound weakened as Sir Keir’s leadership comes under increasing pressure.The yield on 30-year UK government bonds – also known as gilts – jumped as much as 13 basis points to 5.807 per cent in this morning’s trading, reaching the highest level since 1998 as Sir Keir faced increasing calls from within his own party to quit.A protracted leadership election period taking months would give them time to twitch and soar further as the candidates come forward with concrete plans to govern if they win a vote of Labour members.With the floundering US war with Iran expected to sucker-punch an economy already on its knees, it could signal an incredibly difficult period ahead for Britain. Even before the Prime Minister quits or is forced from No10, the markets have reacted with fearAndy BurnhamThe Greater Manchester mayor has already had to reassure the markets that he is not a liability in waiting.Last autumn, as he made a half-hearted attempt to trigger a leadership battle, Mr Burnham suggested the UK should not be ‘in hock’ to bond markets and pledged to borrow money to build council houses alongside a mass nationalisation programme.He was attacked for showing ‘financial naivety’ as stocks in London fell and the pound dipped.He later rowed back on the remarks, but it has raised questions about what he would do in power.Mr Burnham has proposed the idea of ‘Manchesterism’, which he described as a business-friendly ‘aspirational socialism’. Last autumn, as he made a half-hearted attempt to trigger a leadership battle, the Greater Manchester mayor suggested the UK should not be ‘in hock’ to bond marketsAnd last year he told the New Statesman that ‘when you’ve lost control of housing, energy, water, rail, buses, you’ve lost control of the basics of life, but you’ve also then lost control of costs and public spending’.Today one of his most senior allies, the former minister Louise Haigh, signalled that they would seek to increase spending.Writing in a pamphlet published by the Tribune group of soft-Left Labour MPs, she said ‘a Labour government with a mandate to pursue a decade of national renewal must reshape the state to deliver on its electoral promises’. ‘This is not to say we should disregard the bond markets or pursue reckless borrowing – far from it,’ she added.’I am very conscious, having sat in Cabinet after the election, of the dire state of the public fin