Starmer told to resign as Labour is ‘making everything worse’ – London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has told Sir Keir Starme to resign during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday as the petition calling for a new general election over Labour’s broken promises hits almost 2.8 million.

During PMQs Badenoch accused labour of “making everything worse” because of the Chancellor’s £40 billion tax hike in the Autumn Budget last month.

She said that Labour is “not fixing any foundations, he’s making everything worse.”

“He’s not fixing any foundations – he’s making everything worse. The whole House would have heard him refuse to repeat the Chancellor’s pledge, a pledge as worthless as the manifesto promises that he’s talking about.

“If he is fixing foundations, why is it that the PMI (purchasing managers’ index) index shows that business confidence has crashed since the Budget?”

Starmer replied, “We’re fixing the foundations. We’ve got record investment. She talks about tax rises but two weeks ago she stood there and said she wanted all the investment, all the benefits of the Budget, but she didn’t know how she was going to pay for it.

“I notice that having come here criticising the national insurance rises over and over again, on Monday, she admitted that she wouldn’t reverse the position that was set out.

“Meanwhile, her (shadow) science minister was saying he was going energetically to do the opposite. They really haven’t got a clue what they’re doing.”

Starmer asked Badenoch in the House of Commons will the Conservative Party reverse the national insurance hike, she was quick to fire back saying, “if he wants to know what the Conservative would do, he should resign and find out.

“He’s the one who doesn’t know how things work, it is not governments that creates growth, it is business. His Employment Secretary – I don’t see her here – she wants more young people in work, but businesses say they are cutting jobs because of the Chancellor’s Budget.

His Deputy Prime Minister – she’s not here – her Employment Rights Bill will stop businesses hiring, that’s what they say. The CBI (Confederation of British Industry) said on Monday that the dots of the Government’s policy don’t join up. They’re right, aren’t they?”

Starmer said, “On Monday, she said that she wouldn’t reverse the increase in national insurance. Yesterday, on their legacy legislation, their predecessor, they couldn’t decide what their position was.

“Today, they’ve launched a policy commission asking other people to give them some ideas for government. She talks about a petition, we had a massive petition on the 4th of July in this country. We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to a party of government, they are hurtling in the opposite direction.”