Take this case: the law was enacted two years ago by a different government, the regulator follows the law as enacted, and yet no one cares about this little nuance.
In reality, it's a decent technocratic government trying to reverse a decade of mismanagement and fighting about five hundred fires at the same time. It's OK to good.
That's not how "enthusiastic support" looks like: https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1416
Labour & Lib Dems may have voted against the exact text presented to the house on a number of occasions, but it's well documented that they not only supported the general principle of the bill but wanted it to go further.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-09-12/debates/818...
>I agree with the Minister that this is a groundbreaking Bill, but we must be clear that there are still gaps.
- Debbie Abrahams (Labour)
Democracy: everyone's somehow smarter than everyone else.