Speech criticised as 'waffle bomb'

KEMI Badenoch has accused the Government of having given up on trying to “live within its means”, as she criticised Rachel Reeves's speech setting the stage for tax rises as “one long waffle bomb”.

- KEMI Badenoch

Giving her own speech in central London yesterday, the Tory leader said: “The Chancellor's speech was one long waffle bomb, a laundry list of excuses.

“She blamed everybody else for her own choices, her own decisions, her own failures.”