This week I was all geared up to slag off Rachel Reeves and now, thanks to Michael Caine, I can’t. I hope you’re happy, Michael. Is that what you wanted? To close down any centrist criticism of the government? Because that’s what you’ve done.
Let me explain. Michael Caine, a great film star and an astute, relatable and popular public figure, has expressed his support for that petition for another general election. You know, the one that was set up a week or so ago by a pub owner from the Midlands and then got bigged up by Elon Musk. It accuses the government of having gone back on promises it made during the election campaign and, at the time of writing, it’s got 2.8m signatures, one of them, presumably, Michael Caine’s.
