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Rishi Sunak delivered a brutal jibe aimed at Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday after delivering the Government’s Spring Statement. He argued Labour had been happy to support costly Covid measures at the time but were now not willing to foot the bill. <\/p>\n
The Chancellor told MPs: “She raised a number of points which will, of course, come into in due course. But I must say listening to her statement, it did sound as if Covid and the huge damage that it had done via economy and public finances had never actually happened.<\/p>\n
“It sounded as if we didn’t need to do things like furlough or support businesses and provide emergency funding to schools to councils that, yes, the NHS, because whilst her party supported all of those policies at the time they now seem unwilling to pay for them.<\/p>\n
“There is a pattern there, Mr Speaker, they’re always happy to spend taxpayers’ money, just not take care of it.”<\/p>\n