Keir Starmer rips apart Jeremy Hunt's weak budget in powerful speech

it seems the chance has been taking lessons on marketing from the Willie Wonker experience in Glasgow billions and billions of taxpayers money wasted 7 billion by the Prime Minister on covid fraud alone 500 million on the reanda scheme that has achieve precisely nothing the same tired old formula the sticking plasters The Chopping and changing the party first country second politics with no repudiation of the utterly discredited idea that economic growth is something the few gift to the many I call the leader of the opposition s uh thank you Madame Deputy speaker there we have it the last desperate Act of a party that has failed Britain in recession the national credit card maxed out and despite the measures today the highest tax burden for 70 years the first Parliament since records began to see living standards fall confirmed by this budget today that is their record it is still their record give with one hand and take even more with the other and nothing they do between now and the election will change that I mean over 14 years we've seen our fair share of delusion from the party opposite a prime minister who thinks the C of living crisis is starting to ease an education secretary who thinks concrete crumbling on our children deserves her gratitude a former prime minister who still believes crashing the pound was the right path for Britain is she and today a new entry in this Hall of infamy the chancellor who breezes into this chamber in a recession and tells the working people of this country that everything's on track crisis what crisis or as the captain of the Titanic and the former prime minister herself might have said Iceberg what Iceberg smiling as the ship goes down the chuckle Brothers of decline dreaming of Santa Monica or maybe just a quiet life in s not having to self fund his election the PO behind if only it weren't so serious because Madame Deputy speaker the story of this Parliament is devastatingly simple a conservative party stubbornly clinging to the failed ideas of the past completely unable to generate the growth working people need and forced by that failure to ask them to pay more and more for less and less and as the desperation grows they torch not only their reputation for fiscal responsibility but any notion that they can serve the country not themselves party first country second while working people pay the price absolutely absolutely food pric is still 25% higher than they were two years ago rents up 10% an extra 240 LS a month for a typical family remortgaging this year because they lost control of the economy they sent interest rates through the roof they made working people pay they should be under No Illusion that record is how the British people will judge today's Cuts because the whole country can see exactly what is happening here they recognize a toric con when they see it just as they did in November give with one hand take even more with the other Madam Deputy speaker people have been living through this nonsense for 14 years they know the thresholds are still frozen dragging more and more people into higher taxes they know that a Tory stealth tax is coming their way in the shape of their next council tax bill absolutely the leveling the leveling up secretary has told not just this house but every house in the country he's coming for their council tax give with one hand Gove in the other but most insultingly of all the British people know the only cause that gets this lot out of bed is trying to save their own skin take the desperate move after years of resistance to finally accept Labor's argument on the non-dom tax raising has has there ever been a more obvious example of a government that is totally barere of ideas and if if they're sincere in support of this policy now then the question they must answer today is why did they not do it earlier why did they not stand up to their friends their funders and their family because if they had followed lab's example 3.8 million extra operations would have taken place by now 1.3 million emergency dental appointments free breakfast clubs for nearly 4 and a half million children but If instead this is just another short-term cynical political gimmick then honestly what is the point of them what is the point of a party that is out of touch out of ideas and nearly out of Road and we saw it last year as well when only Labor's policies on the cost of living made the difference um and for those opposite now a little downbeat about another intellectual Triumph for social democracy I I I say I say get used to it because with this pair in charge it won't be long before they ask you to defend the removal of private school tax relief as well Madam Deputy speaker the harder they try with cynical games like this the worse it will get for them because the whole country can see exactly who they are fighting for themselves politics not governing party f first country second and Madam Deputy speaker because we have campaigned to lower the tax burden on working people for the whole Parliament and we won't stop now we will support the cuts to National Insurance today but I notice this in 2022 when the Prime Minister was Chancellor he made this promise I can confirm in 2024 for the first time the basic rate of income tax will be cut from 20 to 19 having grief having griefed that all week that an in time C was coming that promise is in tatters today and of course we support the fresh investment in our NHS although I have to note that the chancellor when he was Health secretary 10 years ago promised to make the NHS paper list by 2018 [Applause] and I know I know the Prime Minister fondness Freon musk extends to an enthusiastic Embrace of his community notes on fact checking so I'll say this bit slowly labor supports the fuel Duty freeze that is our policy and I look forward to the prime minister's acknowledgement of that in coming days we do ask the chancellor and can set out how we will make sure that this policy gets passed on to hard pressed families at the pump yet Madam Deputy speaker for all the Fanfare around the tax measures today that straightforward story remains true taxes a 70E High the British people paying more for Less an unprecedented hit to living standards of working people the first time they've gone backwards over a parliament and they were cheering that today and the reason is equally simple there is no plan for growth How can there be he he can say long-term plan all he likes we see the well Madame Deputy speaker let last year he announced 110 growth measures he said we've turned the corner and where are we now Britain in recession an economy smaller than when the Prime Minister entered Downing Street the textbook definition of decline that is their record I mean after 14 years who do they actually think feels better off productivity is flat mortgages through the roof house building off a cliff worklessness rising and Rising homelessness never higher crime virtually unpunished children who can't see a dentist sewage in our Rivers billions and billions of taxpayers money wasted 7 billion by the prim Minister on covid fraud alone 500 million on the Rwanda scheme that has achieve precisely nothing I can keep going a railway line that will never reach our Great Northern cities in fact it might not even reach Central London billions of billions for a white elephant without a trunk while today we learn taxpayers are picking up the bill for the science mis's liel and all the time all the time one thing that is growing the waiting list in R&S now nearly 8 million they've had 14 years 14 years running out of Road Madam Deputy speaker this is what decline looks like and the complacency they've shown today it's F your breath away Britain deserves better than this Britain deserves a real plan for growth an end to 14 years of stagnation wealth creation across the whole of the country higher living standards for working people this is the mission we need but yet again what we got was the same tired old formula the sticking plasters The Chopping and changing the party first country second politics with no repudiation of the utterly discredited idea that economic growth is something the few gift to the many yeah welcome even then Madam Deputy speaker I think his backbenches are ODed an explanation because when the chancellor says Britain has grown more quickly than countries like Germany over the last 14 years I'm sure they will be shocked to learn that this is a statistical slight of hand and when it comes to GDP per capita in other words the growth that makes the difference to the pockets of working people their record is much worse indeed in per capita terms our economy has not grown since the first quarter of 2022 the longest period of stagnation Britain has seen since 1955 in fact the chancellor invited us to look at those figures the OB says GDP per capita will be 34 of a per lower in 2028 that was they forecast in November of last year that was the number he said we should watch 3/4% lower in 2028 and they can call this a technical recession but there's nothing technical about working people living in recession for every second the Prime Minister has been in power this is a Rishi recession and if the if the party opposite really wants to know what hides in the chancellor spreadsheets then they will see that it's only the record levels of migration they have delivered which has prevented an even deeper Decline and that is the record they must stand on at the election because while on these benches we do not demean for a second the contribution migrants make to a thriving economy it is high time the party opposite was honest with the British public about the role migration plays in their Economic Policy because right now in terms of growth that is all they have there is nothing else no plan to get Britain building again with a reformed planning system no ambition to invest in clean British power for cheaper bills and energy security no inclination to move away from insecure loway jobs and strengthen employment rights so we can finally make work PID Madame Deputy speaker where is the urgency on affordable housing how can they look at Britain now and not see this is a massive priority never again will they be allowed to pose as the party of home ownership and aspiration yeah I have to say given the disaster that's befallen his child care plans perhaps that's for the best because Madam Deputy speaker the cost of child care is a huge challenge for Millions parents need him to deliver on his promise and it seems the chance has been taking lessons on marketing from the Willie Wonker experience in Glasgow all is not as it seems and with just over 3 weeks to go he has to come clean because up and down the country parents need to know will they get their entitlement in April or is it just another of their Reckless promises on governing headlines over delivery promises without plans policies that unravel at the first contact with reality the lesson crystal clear that those who broke our economy cannot be trusted to repair it the Tory credit rating is zero it's time for change with labor and that's what today's budget should have been about a last chance for the government to show it understands the economic reality of our volatile world that Global Supply Chain can be weaponized by tyrants like Putin that a sticking plaster approach to public investment will cost Britain more in the long run and that trickle down nonsense means working people pay the price it could even have been a moment of Contrition a reflection on their fiscal recklessness an apology perhaps for the ridiculous chaos they've inflicted on businesses communities and investors in this country and yet still no sustainable industrial strategy still no National wealth fund to crowd in private investment still no urgency on speeding up critical infrastructure projects and no recognition that they have left our standing as a country that always keeps its promises in T and if they don't like that accusation then look no further than the Gres spectacle of ducking their responsibility to the victims of infected blood and Horizon standard one of the greatest miscarriages of Justice in our nation history those were the prime minister's words just two months ago today Justice kicked beyond the general election no Madam Deputy speaker Britain can see exactly who they are and the reality is there is no path to economic stability no way to aarma less chaotic politics with the party opposite in power because chaos is now their world view a mindset that sees Britain's problems as opportunities they can exploit whether like the chancellor that's out of desperation CU they can't solve them or whether like the members for farum or Southwest Norfolk they have no intention of solving them whatsoever for a party this weak and divided the end result is always the same a vicious downward spiral chaos feeding off decline decline feeding off chaos while working people pay the price the British people know this will not stop five more years and it will only get worse there will be no change of Direction without a change of government and that leaves Britain a nation in limbo unable to shake off the Tory chaos that dragged us into recession and loaded the tax burden onto the backs of working people and maxed out the nation's credit card Britain deserves a government ready to take tough decisions give our Public Services an immediate cash injection stick to fiscal rules without complaint fight for the living standards of working people and deliver a sustainable plan for growth so we say to the chancellor prime minister it's time to break the habit of 14 years stop the dithering stop the delay stop the uncertainty and confirm may thei as the date of the next general election CU Britain deserves better and labor are [Applause] ready

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Length: 18min 10sec (1090 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 06 2024