Our watchword should be enterprise – not the starship, but the private spirit of innovationUndoubtedly, voters are worried about living costs. These were all policies designed to generate headlines for a day or two, not to address the high taxes, excessive regulation and punitive energy costs which make the country a fiscal sinkhole. If we have indirectly funded India’s space programme through our aid, John Healey can find £2.8 million for a telescope. He has still to reckon with those barriers to our prosperity that successive governments have failed to overcome – our sclerotic planning system, punishing energy costs and sprawling welfare system, to name but three. Until he does so, he will be boldly going nowhere new.