Starmer Doesn’t Deny ‘Emergency Budget’ Inbound in Labour Spending Panic – Guido Fawkes

Starmer Doesn’t Deny ‘Emergency Budget’ Inbound in Labour Spending Panic

Kemi Badenoch used PMQs to hammer Starmer over Labour’s “high tax, low growth, job-killing government.” Guido has been extensively covering the fallout from Reeves’ business-bashing budget…

She then pointed out that this is why Reeves is now preparing to deliver an “emergency budget”:

“In two weeks, he will come to this House to present an emergency budget they said they wouldn’t need… they trashed the economy with their bad choices… will he use this emergency budget to fix the mess he has made?”

Notably, Starmer didn’t deny that Reeves’ Spring Statement would contain fiscal measures. Instead, he fell back on his usual defence, refusing to “take lectures” from a party that “left a £22 billion black hole.” A reminder: Labour has committed to just one fiscal event per year. The Treasury has been kite-flying radical changes to deal with its own difficulties for some time now…