Child poverty halved under the Labour Government. We
invested in Sure Start—in children’s centres—and a future
for young people. The Prime Minister should get out a bit
more and hear the anger of so many young people around this
country at what they are suffering under her Government and
on her watch.
The chair of the manufacturers’ organisation Make UK said
yesterday:
“I am saddened by the way that some of our politicians have
put selfish political ideology ahead of the national
interest and people’s livelihoods and left us facing the
catastrophic prospect of leaving the EU next month with no
deal”.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the Food
and Drink Federation, the National Farmers Union and the
CBI all want a disastrous no deal ruled out. Along with the
TUC, many also support the UK being in a permanent customs
union.
There is a little over a month to go and the Government
have failed to put the country first. There is the crisis
of jobs going and industries under threat, and the Prime
Minister indulges in what her own Business Minister calls
“fanciful nonsense”. When is she going to put the interests
of the people of this country before the interests of the
Conservative party?
