Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is now desperately insisting that the budget briefings haven’t felt chaotic. Speaking on Times Radio, Nandy claimed:
“It doesn’t feel chaotic, I think, to most people who are getting on with their daily lives and not speculating themselves about the budget. Obviously, the budget has major implications for people across the country. And so we will discuss it.”
Meanwhile Treasury officials are frantically trying to spin the screeching U-turn on income tax hikes as the result of “improved OBR forecasts”. The obvious spin may not survive the scrutiny of the markets. At this rate, will Reeves even limp through to the Winter Budget…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”