After the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt finished delivering his spring Budget speech in the House of Commons, Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer gave his response.
He labelled the Budget a “last desperate act” of the Conservatives and pointed to recent sharp increases in the cost of living to dispute the government’s claims that the Budget will make workers better off.
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the Budget “lifted the lid on 14 years of Tory economic failure”, adding that Labour was “now the party of economic responsibility”.
She tells the BBC that her party will now “go through every pound” in the government’s spending plans to fund Labour’s promised NHS and school breakfast plans.
Labour had planned to raise an extra £2bn compared to the government by replacing “non-dom” rules for UK residents based overseas for tax purposes, but Hunt stole the policy to partially fund the government’s latest cut to National Insurance.