To break one manifesto promise may be regarded as unfortunate. To break two in one week is not so much careless – as Oscar Wilde would have it – as par for the course. Under Keir Starmer, the Government is entirely unburdened by consistency, competence, principle, ideology, vision or (above all) honesty. No sooner had his Chancellor broken the Labour manifesto’s central pledge not to raise taxes on working people in Wednesday’s Budget, which was as much the work of No 10 as No 11, than another prominent pillar of Labour’s pre-election pledges – to give every worker full employment...