Article 6XKT5 Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – as it happened

Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – as it happened

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Amy Sedghi (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier)
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Prime minister says you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs' as he gives speech in north-west England

When something sounds too good to be true, it's because it is too good to be true", water minister Emma Hardy has said, reports the PA news agency.

Asked about the threat" which Reform UK poses to Labour, Hardy told GB News:

I think it's really important that any political party is held to account for the promises that they've made and we know - gosh, don't we just know - what happened when [former prime minister] Liz Truss made her 45bn of unfunded tax cuts: the economy tanked, mortgages went up, rents went up, bills went up.

When something sounds too good to be true, it's because it is too good to be true. If [Farage] wants to be taken seriously as a political party, then he needs to come up with some serious policies and he needs to be held to account.

Now, had I come on your programme and said, do you know what? I'm just announcing 80bn of tax promises', the first thing you'd have said to me is I don't believe you'.

The government must urgently summon the US ambassador to clarify what this court ruling means for Starmer's recent deal with Donald Trump.

The levels of chaos from Trump's economic policy is putting Liz Truss to shame.

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