Considering the litany of cock-ups since July 4, it seems clear that Labour’s government should listen to the unions that created it.

Labour is often described as a creation of trade unions, and there is much truth in the claim. Sadly, it seems the party in Parliament has now become so full of its own self-importance – without having done anything to justify it – that it is ignoring the common sense coming from the organisations that created it.

So we see the unions warning that terminating oil and gas drilling licences in the North Sea will make 30,000 people jobless if no new work is lined up for them – and Labour’s only reply is that something will come along.

The unions say cutting winter fuel payments is a terrible idea because senior citizens will die [see the accompanying image of Paul Nowak, the TUC’s general secretary] – and Labour’s only reply is that it is necessary in order to prove to the money-grubbers in the City (who don’t care) that the government is serious about its fiscal rules.

Now the unions are saying that a wealth tax on the richest one per cent of the population could help fund public services and the NHS (in fact, set at the right level, it could completely wipe away Rachel Reeves’s “£22 billion financial black hole”).

How will Labour excuse itself from implementing this common sense solution – that even some of the richest people in the UK are themselves demanding?

Will it be the hoary old lie that the rich will leave the country if they are taxed? (They won’t.)

Or will it be the fact that the greedy rich rushed to invest in Labour when they realised the Tories were going to lose power? Is it more true to say Keir Starmer and his cronies don’t want to be pushed off that gravy train?

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