'No short cuts': Starmer previews budget and announces bus fare cap raise

Keir Starmer said the era of Tory neglect and 'making working people pay the price' for their policies was over in a speech designed to trail Rachel Reeves’s upcoming budget. The prime minister also announced that the £2 bus fare cap in England would be raised to £3

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[Dav]

Blah blah blah do us a favour step down

[billybartholomew]

The easiest shortcut would be to stop sending billions to foreign aid. Actually use the money to improve Britain? 😂

[STATENS-adventures]

Rebuild the economy 😅 stop spending 8 million a day on immigration and giving millions to other countries maybe then we could.

[Raiser]

Theres money for Ukraine and Israel though 😜

[Coral-qdjg]

There are loads more places you could make cuts. Why target the vulnerable. How about making some cuts to your income and that of all politicians! That won’t ever happen will it!

[BritWolf]

LIVED THROUGH the cost of living crisis? It's still going! And yet all the help is gone!

[lucasfisher]

We have to make hard choices while he sends 12 billion to South Africa, a country that sits at tables with our national enemies, Russia, China and India. Why send money to our enemies and demand the locals pick up the tab

[MrDawson]

Millions a day on immigrants….u absolute tool

[seanfindlay]

Do 'working people' not take the bus?

[Budanevey]

Use the bus to commute? That'll be an extra £400+ a year says Starmer...

[davidthomson]

Who’s economy because he couldn’t care less for ours or why let in millions of economic migrants who’s only intention is to take as much as they can and give nothing in return

[cheryl]

No shorts cuts. Does that mean he will stop the boats, deport grifters from our shores and save the British people 5.4 billion pounds a year. All for it!!!

[walkaz]

Bus fares up 50% already
Clearly something to ease you into Wednesday

[glennlewis]

'Lived' through the cost of living crisis? Don't you mean 'living'? Everything is still expensive you muppet.

[davidlegge]

For three years will they blame the Tories, of Tories get in and start blaming labour then I give up

[Renvaar]

I'm confused... no more 'making working people pay the price'... But also, ' that bus the working man takes to work, we're raising that to £3'?

[Cherrytune]

Despicable putting up the £2 bus fare 😡

[prideofdurham]

Over and over and over the same BS, "Fix the foundations , stabilise the economy, protect the triple lock" . No wonder he was called Rodney, what a plonker.

[keeleyhutchinson]

Keir and labour ate appalling, the lies they have already told, still blaming torys for everything, its like listening to a record, blame it on everyone else but himself, get labour and keir out atrocity

[BrandonMichaels-wevn]

People using the bus are not working people, they are the poorest people. Disgusting. I think it will finish the bus service off for short trips.