Watch the clip above to see LBC’s James O’Brien say with a serious face “it’s just insane how patronising some people are to their readers“. Pots, kettles…
It forms part of a furious rant he inflicted on his listeners this morning. Apparently it is absurd for the media to report on the PM taking a holiday just two weeks into the job, and it’s all fine because he’ll obviously have his phone nearby. An excuse which, for some reason, O’Brien never thought to make for Tory ministers in the past – he also seems to think Yvette Cooper is still Foreign Secretary…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”