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What short memories people have. The incoming Labour government proposed the most radical wealth redistribution measures this century to address poverty and the whole country had a shit fit.
Meanwhile they were also discovering that the Tory governments had lied about borrowing and spending.
...so most of their first year in government was taken up with trying to work out where the Tories had actually been spending our money and re-writing their plans on how to actually improve things.
Since then they have done a lot of things that in theory should alleviate poverty (free school meals, raised taxes on higher earners, increased NHS pay, raised minimum wage, massive infrastructure investment, new investment and laws to make adoption of renewable energy easier, renters reform, removal of inheritance tax breaks for wealthy landowners, that's just off the top of my head) but will take time to actually show a change. Statistics are released yearly about 6 months in arrears so we won't know whether this worked until late 2027.
Then we have been cut-off from one of our major energy supplies by an out of control superpower, not something you can really blame our government for but when people see prices going up they want someone to blame.
Edit to add that clamping down on parasitic organisations like Uber, Amazon, Starbucks needs to be a priority and is an easy and obvious win and it is annoying they haven't.