'We don't need the same old tired message.' Shadow health minister GwynneMP says there has been 13 years of the same messaging from the Tory government on economic growth. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Sky News' business presenter, Ian King, warned the comparisons had been"very, very carefully selected… to paint the UK in a positive light". He added:"Probably more pertinent is the fact that the UK economy is the only one in the G7… whose economy remains smaller than it was going into the pandemicWhile Labour's Andrew Gwynne said people were not"talking down the country", but the Tory government was"running down the country".
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating and we don't need the same old tired message. What we need is a real plan for growth."The speech comes two months ahead of his first full budget, and a number of Tory MPs are pushing for him to introduce tax cuts to bring down the historically high tax burden under the premiership of Rishi Sunak.
But Mr Hunt is expected to resist such calls, with both him and Mr Sunak sticking to their guns that loweringA readout from the cabinet's awayday at Chequers yesterday said he told his colleagues"it would be necessary to retain this disciplined approach in order to reduce inflation, because it is the greatest driver of the cost of living".
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