Labour turns fire on Farage ahead of Reform UK leader’s speech – UK politics live
Chair Ellie Reeves says Farage driven by personal ambition as he is expected to label Starmer ‘unpatriotic’ in speechShadow chancellor Mel Stride also took a swipe at Nigel Farage while appearing on GB News this morning, saying the Reform UK leader was “trying to be all things to all people” which was not “serious grown-up politics.”He told GB News viewers:Reform, of course, have done well out of the fact that this is a deeply unpopular Labour government. They’ve done well out of the fact that we have had a crushing general election defeat, but they are now coming under more scrutiny.In their manifesto, Reform said they take everybody earning up to £20,000 out of income tax altogether. That is £60bn worth of commitment. There are £140bn of giveaways and tax cuts in that manifesto.Rather than reaching for these quick, popular policies that you’ll see Nigel Farage wheel out left, right and centre, without any thought about how they can be delivered or indeed funded.We’ve got to do the hard, serious, grown-up thinking over the next months and years to get together that policy platform that can truly address the big challenges that our country faces, to put to the British people. And that’s exactly what under Kemi’s leadership, we’re doing.[Nigel Farage is] now, today, standing up, he’s going to say something about winter fuel payment and the two-child benefit cap, meaning that people can continue to have more children, and that will be funded and covered by the state.That is a left wing position, and it also comes with a price tag of £5bn between those two measures. He has not got a clue as to how any of that is going to be funded. And we’ve seen that playbook before, and it doesn’t lead to a good place. Continue reading...
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Chair Ellie Reeves says Farage driven by personal ambition as he is expected to label Starmer ‘unpatriotic’ in speech
Shadow chancellor Mel Stride also took a swipe at Nigel Farage while appearing on GB News this morning, saying the Reform UK leader was “trying to be all things to all people” which was not “serious grown-up politics.”
He told GB News viewers:
Reform, of course, have done well out of the fact that this is a deeply unpopular Labour government. They’ve done well out of the fact that we have had a crushing general election defeat, but they are now coming under more scrutiny.
In their manifesto, Reform said they take everybody earning up to £20,000 out of income tax altogether. That is £60bn worth of commitment. There are £140bn of giveaways and tax cuts in that manifesto.
Rather than reaching for these quick, popular policies that you’ll see Nigel Farage wheel out left, right and centre, without any thought about how they can be delivered or indeed funded.
We’ve got to do the hard, serious, grown-up thinking over the next months and years to get together that policy platform that can truly address the big challenges that our country faces, to put to the British people. And that’s exactly what under Kemi’s leadership, we’re doing.
[Nigel Farage is] now, today, standing up, he’s going to say something about winter fuel payment and the two-child benefit cap, meaning that people can continue to have more children, and that will be funded and covered by the state.
That is a left wing position, and it also comes with a price tag of £5bn between those two measures. He has not got a clue as to how any of that is going to be funded. And we’ve seen that playbook before, and it doesn’t lead to a good place.
Continue reading...
