Sir Mel Stride has launched a blistering attack on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, declaring her Spring Statement a “surrender statement”.Taking to the dispatch box following the Chancellor’s address, the Shadow Chancellor hit out at Ms Reeves, branding her a “Chancellor in denial”.Sir Mel said of the statement: “Is that it? What utter complacency. A Chancellor in denial. She speaks of stability, what planet is the Right Honourable lady on?”She has lurched from putting up taxes to destroying growth, to destroying headroom, to coming back to putting up more taxes, more growth destroyed. Round and round we go, like a fiscal twister ripping up everything in its path.”
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As the Commons erupted in response to Sir Mel’s opening remarks, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was forced to intervene, telling the Labour benches: “I will hear the Shadow Chancellor, because people need to recognise there’s two sides.”The Tory frontbencher then hit back at the Labour MPs, declaring they “just don’t like the truth”.He stated: “As our economy bleeds out, what does the Right Honourable lady do? She comes to this house with nothing to say and with no plan. Unless, of course, doing nothing is a cunning plan to avoid those U-turns further down the line.”She is weak, Mr Speaker. She has even stripped the OBR of its ability to assess whether she is meeting her fiscal targets. So, Mr Speaker, let it be remembered that at this time in this Chamber, this weak and chaotic Government gave up on the British people.”Criticising Ms Reeves’s statement further, Sir Mel declared that the Chancellor had “nothing to say” to the nation today, despite her lengthy address.He stated: “She has nothing to say to us today. This is not a Spring Statement.”Interjecting Sir Mel’s response a second time, the Speaker was forced to reprimand Labour MP Barry Gardiner, telling him: “Mr Gardiner, I expect better. We have to listen to you on Thursday night, I don’t need to hear you now!”The Shadow Chancellor continued his attack on Ms Reeves, declaring her address was nothing more than a “surrender statement”.LATEST DEVELOPMENTSUK growth forecast DOWNGRADED by OBR in assessment of Rachel Reeves’s fiscal plansBorrowing costs SURGE as Bank of England interest rate cut plans ‘disrupted’Rachel Reeves delivering Spring Statement as chaos in Middle East threatens to wreak havocMORE TO FOLLOW…
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