Budget 2023: Britain is 'the sick man of Europe once again' - Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has dismissed the government's budget as a "sticking plaster" for an economy that is "in need of major surgery".

Responding to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Sir Keir called the Tories a "divided party" and accused them of "dressing up stagnation as stability as their expiry date looms ever closer".

He described the UK as "a country set on a path of managed decline, falling behind our competitors, the sick man of Europe once again."

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[GetItRightUpYees]

Is there any boats going the other way, I’d love to get out of this little Britain prison

[normanstanleyfletcher]

Don’t matter who’s in charge 🇬🇧 finished unfortunately

[bjorn]

“The lettuces may be out but the turnips are in” is the most multi-layered put-down ever from Starmer.

[amfearliathmor]

Does anyone else find the supermarket food shortages very humorous as well?

[Lints]

Where was Keimer in the Oscars ? He deserved one trophy for the melodrama😅

[sebastianwrites]

And I live in Edinburgh... and £8.6 million for these festivals? These festivals get plenty of money as it is, and Edinburgh Fringe due to the amount of 'money' involved has become increasingly "exclusive" I feel, and even 'more' money I would not have thought is the solution?

[rosscannon]

Seriously don't know why we are not coming together and ending this how much more we meant to take ffs

[johnhudson]

Rushing sunak - delivering for the people of BAE systems, British petroleum, Centrica and any one else with the money to feed an offshore slush fund

[Mr.Haque]

The British government should cut the foreign budget and spend that money on British citizens.💷🇬🇧

[Abraham_Tsfaye]

When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country

[thomasT]

Im all for oppositions simply criticising whats been implemented BUT they should be made to oppose with an alternative policy that clearly competes with the proposed one. Half a job, anyone can criticise and condemn!

[yorkiegilly]

"the sick man of Europe ?" - only when Labour is in power pal - only when Labour is in power ! .

[grahamcook]

SKS is the sick man of social democratic politics of Europe.

[martynjones]

Starmer is incapable of saying it, but we all know why we are lagging behind comparative economies, and why growth is a very distant goal - BREXIT.

[jamboreetime]

Austerity has killed this country, everyone has had enough!!!

[charlesflouvat]

I've been trying harder, and working more hours, but there's still no turnips on the shelves 🤔

[brunopetit]

Yes and one of the reasons is due to the Unions who have Starmer etc in their pockets. Not something he will ever want to mention.

[Chimp]

I'm a good shoplifter so the price hikes don't affect me🥳🥳🥳🥳

[ajnicolsonp]

Brave government UK no brexit cut brave on London EU

[peterbrown]

It's almost as if the tories look after their own.