I hate Labour. I don’t think anyone that voted for Labour voted for this.

Thatcher would be so proud

"Labour", indeed.

Neoliberals have discovered salami tactics to destroy social welfare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang

those contracts take years to tender and likely have huge clawback clauses. I doubt that Labour got into power and immediately signed contracts for things like this. More likely it was more expensive to stop it.