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.”
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.”