We were joined by Mel Stride, who was the Work and Pensions Secretary until the election and is now running to be Conservative leader.
Mel Stride – Sir Keir Starmer says you guys left the country in a complete mess, this budget is going to be painful and it’s your fault.It’s a smokescreen. We challenged Labour during the run-up to the general election because we knew they planned very large tax increases. They denied that at the time and in fact ruled out a lot of the bigger taxes. But what we now know is that they may say ‘it was all far worse than we ever expected,’ that’s just not simply the case.
You would have had to have coughed up more than 2% and you know that to be the case. Is that a yes or a no?Yes, and you were sitting on them.Yeah but you didn’t take a decision, you shelved it, you kicked it into the long grass.Many of them hadn’t even come forward at the time of the general election, actually. But we were not going to be saying to the train drivers and others, here’s your money – and we don’t expect any productivity improvements whatsoever. No strings attached.
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