The way Starmer tells it wages are growing faster than prices. “Jobs up. Inflation down. Interest rates down. NHS waiting lists down. Houses and infrastructure unblocked. Free breakfast clubs rolling out. National Living Wage increasing. National Minimum Wage increasing. Defence spending increased. Two million more NHS appointments delivered. Housebuilding to be at the highest level in 40 years. People to be £500 a year better off. The Tories blocked change for Britain. My Labour government is delivering it.”

The reality on the street is another story. Homelessness, poverty and despair. The Labour government wants to slash £6.4 billion from benefits spending by the end of the decade by making it harder to claim personal independent payments (PIP) and cutting universal credit (UC). The number of children living in poverty in the UK has reached a record high of almost 4.5 million. Charities say cuts to disability and incapacity benefits announced by the Labour Government will “push more disabled people into poverty and worsen people’s health”. Government estimates suggest welfare cuts will plunge thousands more children below the poverty line by the end of the decade. Oxfam, for example, said the figures were “as damning as they are heartbreaking”. Silvia Galandini, from the charity, said: “It is morally repugnant that children, disabled people and carers are the ones who are taking the hit. It is unconscionable that the government is cutting social security while wilfully ignoring the huge potential revenue of a tiny tax on the super-rich, one that is overwhelmingly backed by the British public.”

We’re in for another round of austerity – to pay for more missiles and nukes and above all to prop up end-game capitalism in Britain and the rest of Europe. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Independent bloc in Parliament, says people did not elect a Labour government to push 50,000 more children into poverty. But “ever since this Labour government was elected, they have chosen to balance the books off the backs of the poor”.

Meanwhile Starmer and the Brussels cabal are running round Europe promoting their “coalition of the willing” in a last ditch bid to get a seat at the peace conference where the future of Ukraine will be decided. But as far as the Americans and Russians are concerned there’s only going to be two seats at the bargaining table – and they’re reserved for Trump and Putin.