Conor responding to the Budget delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer today said:
“The Chancellor talks a good game but in reality, this was a budget of failure.хЪхЪ
“The OBR has revised down its growth predictions and the Chancellor has failed to meet his own fiscal targets. The economy is smaller than predicted and there is now a хЃ18 billion black hole.
“Whilst I welcome the announcement of HS3 and further infrastructure investment in the North, these have to be delivered and the Chancellors record previously has been one of failure. That over 97% of staff employed to deliver the so-called ‘northern powerhouse’ are based in London is an absolute shambles.
“It seems the Chancellor is primarily concerned with posturing for Tory leadership, and is making working families pay for his own economic failings rather than helping them.хЪхЪхЪ
“Mates’ rates on taxes for multinationals -while local authorities suffer 79% cuts, child poverty set to rise every year, 2.1 million working families хЃ1,600 a year worse after cuts to Universal Credit and 200,000 disabled people set to lose хЃ3000 a year; the Chancellor is making working people and the most vulnerable pay for his own economic failings.
“This was more of the same from an out of touch Chancellor and will do little to help people in St Helens North and across the North West.”
 
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