'Never again can Rishi Sunak claim to have a plan when his plan is not working'

15 February 2024 , 17:22

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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said working people were paying the price for Tory chaos (Image: PA)

Mirror readers don’t need me or any other politician to tell them how tough things are at the moment.

We are still in the midst of a cost of living crisis. Taxes are at a seventy year high, household monthly mortgage payments are on the up and prices are still rising in the shops. Our economy is fundamentally broken – and it is working people who are paying the price.

Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister on the promise that he would turn this situation around after the chaos of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. He made growing the economy a central pledge of his leadership.

That promise, like his promise to stop the boats and to cut NHS waiting lists, is now in tatters following the news Britain fell into recession last year. In fact, the British economy is now smaller than when Rishi Sunak entered 10 Downing Street.

Never again can Sunak claim to have a plan when his plan is not working. Never again can he claim to have turned a corner when our economy is shrinking. And never again can he claim that we are not going back to square one when he is taking the country backwards.

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He is a failed Prime Minister leading a failed Conservative government after fourteen years in power.

It’s time for change. Keir Starmer and I have changed the Labour Party so we can change our economy for the better. I want to grow the economy because I want more money in people’s pockets. I want to see our high streets thriving again. And I want to see British businesses creating good, well paid jobs in every corner of the country.

That’s the change the Labour Party is offering and the change we so desperately need. And the sooner Mirror readers have the chance to vote for that change the better.

Rachel Reeves