Burnham’s clearest signal yet that tax hikes are coming:
“I think firstly, you have to do more with what you’ve got. But I think Louise indicated, some of what we’d want to do in the fullest sense will require difficult decisions. But we will be honest with people about those, we will put them before the country at the right time, and we will hopefully proceed with people’s consent…”
Spending like a sailor. Inevitable…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”