Badenoch claims Reeves’s Budget was designed to ‘milk private sector’ Politics The Labour government’s “ideological” Budget was “designed to milk the private sector”, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed. Quizzing Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) today, the Conservative leader accused the Labour leader of “having nothing to offer but platitudes”. She said: “Their ideological Budget was designed to milk the private sector and [...]
Keir Starmer refuses to rule out hike to employer national insurance Politics “Increasing employer NICs would mean breaking a Labour manifesto promise, and small businesses would be rightfully outraged," Craig Beaumont, executive director at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said.
Sketch: PMQs falls flat – do Sunak and Starmer not get the rules? Politics With the Tories immersed in a leadership contest and Labour emerging from weeks of freebie headlines and internal drama, Westminster watchers will have turned to this week’s PMQs for a much needed injection of drama. Grab your popcorn, it’s box office time. Surely the acting leader of the Conservative Party could at least muster up [...]
PMQs sketch: Dowden and Rayner build fragile house of cards April 24, 2024 Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner’s efforts to bluster her way past deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden’s well-rehearsed jibes fell flat at times.