Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been slapped with a devastating verdict on their time in power as a GB News guest took aim at their possible backtracking over tax rises.
Speaking with GB News’ Martin Daubney, founder of Turn Left Media, Curtis Daly, blasted the Government’s ability to communicate with the public, revealing the “real problem” behind their governance.
“The problem with Rachel Reeves and the Labour Party is not necessarily the policies. It’s the political side,” Mr Daly told Martin.
At the General Election, a slew of Labour candidates parroted off promises that included vowing not to raise income tax, National Insurance of VAT.
Mr Daly took aim at Labour for ‘painting themselves into a corner’ over tax rises
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Now, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have been refusing to rule out key tax rises, instilling fear across the nation as Britons clutch their purses to their chests.
“Basically they painted themselves into a corner and it’s entirely their fault, by the way.” Mr Daly hammered home.
“And now they’ve got the media asking them ‘are you going to raise taxes or not’? So the idea that this is anyone else’s fault is ridiculous.”
He added: “Now, had the Labour Party said that they were going to raise taxes on the richest or impose a wealth tax, they would have won, partly because the Conservatives are toast.”
In this scenario, Mr Daly said that Labour could have excused itself by pleading that it was their “political project” to tax “those with the broadest shoulders”.
“Now, they’ve got these public services that they need to restore and they’ve got no way of paying for it. I mean, they could pay for it by ditching the ridiculous fiscal rules,” the founder argued.
Over the past few months, Britons have been bracing for the November Budget, where Ms Reeves will set out her main spending, cuts and taxes for the year ahead.
“The one thing I do kind of agree with Rachel Reeves on, and it really irks me to say that is, I do hate it when Governments blame past Governments,” Mr Daly continued.
“The Conservatives did that about the Labour Party for years and about the financial crisis, which was a global financial crisis.
“But Rachel Reeves blaming austerity, that is a good point, because we’ve had 14 years of cuts and you can’t fix that overnight.”
However, the Labour Party has assigned blame to a multitude of public sectors, from public finances to prison places as they pinned blame on the “Tory inheritance”.
“What I don’t like is when they say and when Rachel Reeves says they’re blaming the Conservatives for the finances, you can literally fix that.
“You can invest in our public services. You can do it without even increasing taxes, by the way. These are political decisions,” he told Martin.
The Downing Street duo are ‘politically the worst ever seen’, the guest blasted
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“When I think of David Cameron, I disagree with so much of his Government and his policies, but he was an effective communicator, I think.
“Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer, these people in the Labour Party, politically are the worst I’ve ever seen.”
The Downing Street duo’s popularity has been dwindling for some time. Sir Keir’s popularity has plummeted as a recent poll exposed that around 50 per cent of 2024 Labour voters held an “unfavourable opinion” of the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, Ms Reeves does not appear to be faring much better as an Ipsos poll in June showed that 51 per cent of Britons thought she was doing a bad job in No11.
A mere 16 per cent believed the Labour MP was doing a good job.