The Prime Minister will warn that the economy is in a dire state and 'we can't go on like this anymore'
Shadow Science Secretary Andrew Griffith has rejected a suggestion that Labour is having to deal with a poor economic inheritance from the Tories, claiming that the Government is making things difficult for itself through its own 'political choices'. He told Sky News: 'We've got the independent . They opine about the state of the public finances. Across most Western economies it's been a difficult decade, amplified in particular by Covid.
The UK is one of the fastest-growing economies in the G7, and so there really shouldn't be a debate about the actual legacy Labour inherited, but what they've done of course is come in and make political choices to give inflation-busting pay rises to the public sector which weren't in their manifesto. 'That has put pressure on the public purse. We'll wait to see whether they're about to break one of their other promises in the election, which was not to put up taxes.
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