OPINION - The Standard View: Labour should be up front about tax

There lies a contradiction at the heart of Labour’s diagnosis of what ails Britain. On the one hand, a nation afflicted by decaying public services, rising homelessness and faltering local government finances. On the other, “working people” (a deliberately undefined term) will not have to pay more. If this is an unstable proposition in the midst of an election campaign, it is likely to topple over in government.