It is absolutely certain he had meetings long before the election "When we win we'll claim to have discovered a huge black hole in the budget so we can do everything we said we WOULDN'T do in order to win votes".
It's SOOO Starmer - like "You will be believed"... "Of course we know 80% of "victims" are liars but the stupid punters only think one way - that there are abusers under every bed - so this caters to popular opinion".