As the wheels threaten to fall off the budget roadshow, a defensive Albanese could take a tip from the UK (opens in new tab)

British MP Wes Streeting has given a simple and arresting explanation of the need for tax reform – something that continues to elude the Labor governmentGet our , or A few years before he would quit Keir Starmer’s imperilled government, Wes Streeting made a date with Paul Keating.In Sydney at the start of summer 2023, the future UK health secretary visited Keating in Potts Point to discuss big picture economic and social reforms, the state of the world and “the importance of making every seco...