Labour’s promises to be laser-focused on growth and get value for taxpayers are in danger of looking like sick jokes

Mind the gap

IT is simply not sustainable for a Government to make the public sector richer as the private sector gets poorer.

It is a blueprint for stagnation, plummeting living standards and higher ­unemployment.

But that increasingly looks like where we are headed.

One quarter of the council tax you pay is now hived off not to fund social care or bin collections or to fix potholes but to pay staff’s already lavish pensions.