Reeves’ tax-hiking budget has bombed spectacularly with business leaders. Her line to the private sector of ‘I’m an economist, so I know what I’m doing’ has aged about as well as her HBOS credentials on her online CV. Since her budget dropped, a flood of furious bosses have lined up to condemn her measures. Guido give you a list of just a few of the blistering reactions so far…
More big bosses are sure to come out against Reeves’ business-bashing budget. Guido will update this list when they do…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”