Reeves has emerged from hiding to defend her economic programme after a new set of sclerotic GDP statistics. She also found time to dunk on the Health Secretary…
The Chancellor:
She hit back at Wes Streeting, who released messages with Peter Mandelson in which he said there was “No growth strategy at all”:
“Wes Streeting said yesterday that he was wrong in his text messages to Peter Mandelson because the economy has grown this year because interest rates have come down six times.We have a plan. We have a plan to grow our economy and that plan is beginning to deliver.”
Desperate stuff…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”