{"id":302782,"date":"2025-11-24T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302782\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:23:10","slug":"time-for-rachel-reeves-to-resign-says-shadow-chancellor-sir-mel-stride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302782\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Rachel Reeves to resign, says Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SHADOW Chancellor Sir Mel Stride has said that Rachel Reeves should resign for misleading people and breaking manifesto commitments.<\/p>\n

He told the Camilla Tominey Show on GB News: \u201cI don\u2019t think you should run around constantly asking for everybody to resign over everything. But I think if we\u2019ve reached the point where this government in opposition made a lot of very clear commitments, including in their manifesto, then promptly junked a lot of them and did different things in office, and has now arrived at a point where, once again, we are led to believe they will be putting up taxes on hard working people, which is something that they said they wouldn\u2019t do. Then, yeah, I think it\u2019s time for her to step aside, I\u2019m afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked when she should resign and who should replace her, he said: \u201cI\u2019ll leave that for others to think about. But I think a position does finally become untenable if you go into a general election saying that you\u2019re not going to put up taxes on hard working people that you then do that, because that\u2019s what National Insurance on employers actually did back in October of last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you have an emergency budget in the spring, in March, and you say, \u2018that\u2019s it, end of, we\u2019re not going to be coming back for more\u2019 and so on, not putting up taxes on hard working people and then another six months later, that appears to be exactly what you\u2019re going to do. I\u2019m afraid there is a limit, I think, to everybody\u2019s patience in those circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll leave that to others. I mean, the Prime Minister is still in his position. When all this happens, if it happens, then it\u2019ll be for whoever is Prime Minister at that time to take that decision.<\/p>\n

SIR MEL STRIDE MP GB News 23:11.jpeg<\/p>\n

\u201cI am absolutely solid on the fact that it could be a man or a woman. It makes no difference. This isn\u2019t a question of gender. It\u2019s a question of economic competence. I think all this mansplaining business is a bit of chaff. It\u2019s a bit of a distraction to try and get away from the basic facts, which we\u2019ve got unemployment at a five-year high, we\u2019ve got anaemic, flatlining growth, we got inflation that\u2019s almost double the level it was under us, and we\u2019ve got an economy that\u2019s in a very bad position, saddled up with debt.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re paying 100 billion a year just on servicing that debt at the moment, and yet this government\u2019s going out and borrowing more money and spending more money and driving up inflation and putting us in a very precarious situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cRachel Reeves has been the author of her own misfortune. She put it was her who chose to load a load a load of taxes on businesses and kill growth. They talked down the economy. They borrowed and spent a lot of money, which has driven up inflation and interest rates. And it\u2019s therefore no surprise we\u2019ve ended up in this parlous situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation during the last few years of the last Conservative administration were that we had Covid which shrank the UK economy by over 10% overnight. You\u2019d have to go back to the Great Frost of 1714 to have had any sign of that kind of shock hitting our economy. And of course, we had the Ukraine, Russia war that put up inflation at the back end of 2022 to over 11% and we had to bring that down.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo nobody at that time was suggesting we shouldn\u2019t have been spending the money we were on supporting millions of jobs and households up and down the country. We did that, and we did it, Camilla, on the back of our previous record of having got the deficit down since 2010 when we took over from Labour. So we did it because we had a stronger economy that was able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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