Rachel Reeves speaking ahead of the Spring Budget

Rachel Reeves, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking ahead of the Spring Budget, said:

“This Budget should be the final chapter of fourteen years of economic failure under the Conservatives that has left Britain worse off. 

“The Conservatives promised to fix the nation’s roof, but instead they have smashed the windows, kicked the door in and are now burning the house down. 

“Taxes are rising, prices are still going up in the shops and we have been hit by recession. Nothing the Chancellor says or does can undo the economic vandalism of the Conservatives over the past decade.

“The country needs change, not another failed Budget or the risk of five more years of Conservative chaos.

“Under Keir Starmer’s leadership, the Labour Party has changed and is now the party of economic responsibility. Only Labour has long term plan to deliver more jobs, more investment and to make working people better off.”