'Toxic Labour promised change ...but all they've brought is change for the worse'

LABOUR promised change but all it's brought is change for the worse.

- KEMI BADENOCH

Keir Starmer said he'd protect pensioners, then he cruelly snatched away the winter fuel allowance.

He said he'd look after farmers, then he brought in the Family Farms Tax.

The Labour manifesto even said it wouldn't raise taxes on working people.

But at the Budget last year, the Chancellor levelled a punishing jobs tax on businesses, councils, even schools and nursing homes.

The result is that businesses are culling staff and putting up prices to cope with Labour's tax rises.

Unemployment has risen nearly every month since Labour entered government, and inflation has almost doubled from what it inherited from the Conservatives.

The Prime Minister is now stuck in a doom loop that is making the cost of living worse for families across Britain.

He is also operating entirely at the mercy of his left-wing backbench MPs.

They didn’t let him cut the ballooning welfare bill and they’re not going to let him cut other government spending. It all adds up to one thing: tax rises are coming in the budget this autumn.

The Government knows this, but won't be honest about it.

Last year, Rachel Reeves told MPs she would unfreeze Personal Allowance thresholds because extending them would "hurt working people".

Now ministers can't even say if this is still the Government's policy.