So long as growth remains anaemic, the only option other than economic deregulation is public investment. The government can restore our public services without hiking the taxes of everyday workers. Unite has looked at proposals from academic experts that together would raise more than £50bn a year. From taxing the wealth of the top 1% at an annual rate of 1%, to equalising capital gains tax with income tax rates and extending national insurance to apply to investment income, the government has options. This is what Starmer should be proposing in his speech to conference. But he will not. All these solutions require a departure from the failed economic norms of the last generation.