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Shadow chancellor to say Hunt’s and Sunak’s message of ‘the plan is working’, does not reflect economic reality
Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, had the job of putting the government’s case to broadcasters this morning. He told Times Radio that a lot of potential Conservative supporters did not vote in the local elections because they were “disgruntled”. He went on:
This is a volatile electorate, there are undoubtedly people that we need to win back to the Conservative cause.
I suspect a large number of those people stayed away on election day last Thursday, and it’s down to us now to do absolutely everything we can in a united way as the party to bring back those people to the Conservative fold.
The personnel may change but the Labour party hasn’t. Rachel Reeves still hero-worships Gordon Brown, who sold off our gold reserves and whose hubris took Britain to the brink of financial collapse.
Labour have no plan and would take us back to square one with higher taxes, higher unemployment, an illegal amnesty on immigration and a plot to betray pensioners, just like Gordon Brown did.
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