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It is as much about what Sir Keir Starmer did not say which was what was interesting from his interview tonight with GB News. The Labour leader – who the polls expect to be Prime Minister in two weeks’ time – refused to budge any further than his pledge not to raise National Insurance, income tax or VAT. Interestingly he offered a new definition of the “working people” who he wants to help if he gets the keys to Downing Street. These were people who had more (but not much more) than a few thousand pounds in savings, and found themselves without “the wherewithal to write a big cheque when they …