CONSERVATIVE and cronyism are fast becoming the two words most associated with Boris Johnson’s government.

The Prime Minister is savvy enough to grasp the truth that the public are well and truly fed up with crony capitalism and has signalled a reduction in private-sector involvement in the NHS.

In one of those moments in British politics which illustrate just how Westminster is detached from the lived reality of working class Britain, a leaked memo from Sir Keir Starmer is conveyed to the readers of Rupert Murdoch’s Times newspaper that Labour will be “unashamedly pro-business with a policy that includes tax cuts to firms and a business rates holiday.”