GB News host Camilla Tominey has ripped into Rachel Reeves’s record after one of her Whitehall colleagues hailed her as an “excellent” Chancellor.
Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden joined Camilla on her Sunday morning show, claiming Ms Reeves is “getting more investment into the country and she’s helping people with the cost of living”.
“Let’s have a quick chat about the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves,” Camilla began. “So we now know that she lied in her CV.
“There’s claims that she lied in the Budget. She wasn’t ever the under-14 chess champion. She actually came 24th out of 36.
“So, why is she still in post when she’s got this quite difficult relationship, seemingly, Pat McFadden, with the truth?”
But Camilla was seemingly perplex by Mr McFadden’s response.
“She’s in post because she’s an excellent Chancellor,” the Labour MP flatly retorted, despite Ms Reeves polling as the “worst Chancellor ever”.
An Ipsos poll last month revealed that a shocking 71 per cent of voters admitted they were dissatisfied with her performance in No11.
The GB News presenter was left baffled after Pat McFadden defended his fellow Cabinet colleague
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“Is she?” the presenter incredulously fired back at her guest.
Unfazed, the minister ploughed on with his praise of Ms Reeves, claiming that she had “put the country’s finances on a stable footing”.
“Has she?” Camilla interjected again.
But Mr McFadden remained undeterred, adding: “She’s getting more investment into the country and she’s helping people with the cost of living. That’s why she’s in post.
Rachel Reeves has been branded ‘the worst ever Chancellor’ in Britain
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Ms Reeves has had her feet put to the fire after the Budget bludgeoned Britons with a staggering £26billion of taxes in the widely-anticipated statement.
Ahead of November 26, Ms Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer vowed that the Treasury would not hike taxes on working Britons.
Additionally, ahead of the General Election, Labour candidates consistently parroted off promises to the tune of the party manifesto, committing themselves to not raising key taxes.
“I hope you’re not going to say to me, Pat McFadden, with all of your wealth of political experience, that you’re not taxing working people because you clearly are,” Camilla chastised.
“And it’s largely to go towards paying people who aren’t working benefits, isn’t it?”
At which point, Mr McFadden adamantly denied the claim, adding: “All the taxation in the country comes together for the things that we need.
“We had to turn the corner on the NHS, which we’re doing with waiting list down for the first time in years. We had to keep up the investment in the transport system, in building new houses.
“There are things to be done in the country. We’ve got to increase defence expenditure because of the situation in Europe. So taxation goes to all those things right across the board.”
“If the Chancellor and the Prime Minister are doing such a great job, why are they now historically unpopular as far as the electorate’s concerned?”
“The Prime Minister’s approval rating is tanking. Rachel Reeves is the least popular Chancellor in history – and I’m including Kwasi Kwarteng in that,” she continued.
“Governments are elected to make the decisions. They’re not always popular at the time. The time to judge the Government is when the next election comes,” Mr McFadden responded.