Boris Johnson Nicks a Big Idea From Labour to Save Himself – for Now

It’s rare to see the Labour Party offer such a fulsome embrace of a set of Conservative policy announcements. Then again, opposition leader Keir Starmer’s shadow bench was really cheering Boris Johnson’s government adopting Labour calls for a windfall tax on energy companies and more help for consumers hit with cost-of-living increases. Democracy in action. 

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak had no qualms appropriating the policy, nicking Labour's idea but giving a Tory spin, calling it an energy profits levy to distinguish it from the opposition's windfall proposal.