CLA President Victoria Vyvyan hit out at Starmer’s reliance on BBC Verify for support on the farm tax:
“The Prime Minister is reduced to claiming that his numbers are backed up by BBC Verify, two blokes with a cup of tea and a calculator. This Prime Minister has got a Treasury to rely on. He doesn’t need BBC Verify to back him up. That is not a Treasury in which I have the greatest confidence, frankly, if it needs that support.”
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”