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 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.”