An angry Starmer was challenged in Rugby by Beth Rigby after the Budget lifted the two-child benefit cap, paid for by a tax hike of £26 billion. The PM barked at Rigby that he always wanted to ‘reduce child poverty’…
Asked if there were more tax rises on the way, Starmer said: “We’ve done a lot to stabilise the economy… it’s clear that others think that the right measures have been put in place.” A few more Labour Budgets and there won’t be an economy left to keep ‘stabilising’…
Kemi Badenoch defended her decision not to force Tory councils to hold elections in May, telling GB News:
“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”