By Christian May Keir Starmer’s closest advisors spent last week briefing journalists that this government would be straight with people, and that it would reject the “fake populism” of the Tories which, they claim, raised people’s hopes before disappointing them. Labour figures said that the Prime Minister’s doom-laden introduction to the country was more responsible than attempting to “engineer false hope.” Ministers will be reminded of the perils of over-promising when they discover that they do not have the power to lower prices with the wave of a wand. Online outrage over the “dynamic pri…