Labour continuing to ‘fix the miss Tories left’, PM tells Commonspublished at 12:18 GMT
12:18 GMT
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For her next question, Badenoch continues to press Starmer on the economy – saying the Tories reduced the deficit while in power and also brought inflation down to 2%.
“It is now nearly double,” she says, before moving to push Starmer on whether he will commit to cut welfare spending ang get people into work.
Badenoch asks: “Instead of tax rises will he work with us to cut welfare spending and get Britain working again?”
Starmer says when in power, the Tories “crashed the economy” and “mortgages went through the roof”.
He says under the Labour government, waiting lists have come down, wages have gone up and countries – like Turkey and Norway – want to do deals with the UK. “We are fixing the mess that they left,” Starmer continues.