In the LAB leadership race Osbo’s budget looks set to help Yvette more than Andy, Jeremy or Liz
A Budget that betrays working parents – with women hit more than twice as hard as men. See my response http://t.co/jTinSjRpIW @TheStaggers
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) July 8, 2015
70% of the £9.6bn net extra being raised from households (inc tax credits, allowances, benefits) is coming from women (£7bn) @CommonsLibrary
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) July 8, 2015
Yesterday could help revive Yvette’s flagging campaign
A big problem for all contenders is that there have been precious few opportunities since the general election defeat for them to get coverage away from the leadership campaign itself.
Inevitably all the focus has been on the new government and Labour is largely being ignored. The budget, however, presents an opportunity for the four to show their mettle in a real political setting.
Although two of them, Burnham and Cooper, are former Chief Treasury Secretaries it’s been the latter who since yesterday’s budget appears to have made most in terms of responding to what is being portrayed, so far at least, as an Osborne triumph.
She’s the one who has seized on the gender aspect – woman will be hit most – and she’s the one who has been getting most coverage. It’s smart for the Yvette campaign to portray her as the champion for “working mums” because she is the only one of the four who is one.
So far her response to the budget and the perception that Osborne is more likely to be the CON leader that LAB will face in 2020 might help revive the lacklustre Cooper campaign. She needs to do something because until now others have been making the running.
Both the Burnham and Cooper betting prices have tightened on Betfair.