Braintree Conservatives spent the weekend campaigning against the construction of a ‘mega prison’ at RAF Wethersfield, with constituency MP James Cleverly spotted sharing the below leaflet yesterday:
“Only the Conservatives say no to a prison at Wethersfield“… apart from the Leader of the Conservative Party. Just six weeks ago, Kemi Badenoch called for just that. Here’s what she said about that exact site on 30 June…
“I know many people in the area did not necessarily want a prison, but the people in the surrounding area of Essex did want one and we have to do the right thing… We need more prison places. I stood on a manifesto to deliver that.”
Tanks on the lawn…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”
