Labour has proposed charging business pass attendees to its Party Conference a whopping £2,500. For the pleasure of seeing a junior minister’s face over breakfast of stale croissants…
The party is launching all pass applications on the 11th of this month. Its conference services team currently asking previous business attendees a series of questions about their hopes and expectations and says “your input will play a key role in ensuring we get this right for you.“ Labour is even offering respondents a £100 Amazon or John Lewis gift card as a reward for their views…
The questionnaire asks:
“If the Annual Conference week pass was priced at £2,500, how likely would you be to purchase a ticket?”
Those business passes usually start at £900 before rising at the last minute stage. So Labour is proposing a price hike of almost 300%. Party finance desperation combined with hatred of growth-generators…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”