Member

In their clamour to cut taxes for the richest, the Conservatives crashed our economy, sent mortgage rates spiralling and put our pensions in peril. I will never take those risks. Yet Reform is itching to do the same thing all over again. The honourable Member for Clacton, Nigel Farage, may be playing the friend of the workers now, but some of us are old enough to remember when he described the disastrous Liz Truss Budget as ‘the best Conservative Budget’ since the 1980s—after the damage is done, he still nods along. Reform has learned nothing. His party has been in Parliament for less than a year, yet it has already racked up £80 billion of unfunded commitments. Reform is simply not serious. Every day it becomes clearer that it is Labour—and only Labour—that has a credible plan for the renewal of Britain.