Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has previously warned that the Budget due at the end of October will be “painful”
A Labour mayor has said he thinks there will be “a spoonful of sugar along with the medicine” in the Budget next month.
Asked whether he thought this would be a Budget that would deliver economic growth, he said: “I think there’s going to be sort of a spoonful of sugar along with the medicine.” Referring to his metro mayor colleagues, Mr Rotheram added: “We said this to the Tories, we’ll say it to Labour: we stand ready to deliver that increase in economic growth in our individual areas”.
Hundreds of new MPs were elected for the first time in July, and he has warned new parliamentary recruits to be “careful about the attractions and the shiny things that can happen” in Westminster. While he described parts of the civil service as “making decisions when they couldn’t identify the difference between what’s called Kirkby and West Kirby”, Mr Rotheram compared that to his mayoral position, where “we do know all of that and so we can take those decisions and control our own destiny and make those right calls for our communities”.
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