Andrew Neil: Starmer’s budget is path to ‘slow growth and stagnation’

“Why they want to join a collection of economies synonymous with slow growth and stagnation is a puzzle.”

Andrew Neil says Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have chosen the path of European social democracies with low economic growth.

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[andrewmac]

Redistribution of wealth? From firms, farmers and self-employed to illegal immigrants, train drivers and Chinese wind turbine makers.

[garyb]

Bond yields have been rising all day and the Pound has been falling all day, what could possibly go wrong ?

[davidfoster]

It’s a disgrace what the Labour government have done to farmers, none of the Labour front bench have any experience of business, these people are financially illiterate.

[SimonWallwork]

There's going to be PLENTY of growth in the Public sector and the size of the State!

[davidt]

She will destroy British farming with this budget and I think she will unleash British farmers and we saw what happened to the Welsh government when they tried to implement the agricultural reforms last week. Hopefully the farming community will mobilize again and come out fighting against this socialist government . I hope this government pays a high price for its ignorance of businesses and the farming community

[Bada_Bing]

OBR's forecast is optimistic. This is the beginning of a downward spiral from a starting position of already high tax and low growth.

[cgo]

Where are the business people who publically endorsed Labour during the election? Their silence is thunderous - and all too guess they're raking it in from all those short positions they put on the UK economy.... just saying.

[jimmcculloch]

Andrew Neil, the best radio or tv interviewer there is!!

[markhutton]

It's NOT the path to slow growth, it's the path to recession, total economic collapse.

[carmenboddis]

They wouldn't have to borrow if they reduced foreign aid

[davidfoster]

There is no fool like an old socialist fool, Brian is certainly one of them.

[antonyetheridge]

andrew neil sharper than the whole labour front bench combined

[richardgregory]

"It's pretty close"
"No, £9 billion is not £22 billion"
"Well we can take that one away and discuss it"
ROFL

[jjeannie]

If you voted labour you got what you deserve and got no right to moan

[chrisprior]

It happend in Holland, the followed EU directives to buy up 3, 500 farms. The farmers bought out were to be banned from ever farming again. They fought back and the government fell as a consequence. Non of this was reported in the uk. Why not? By the way Dutch farmers export more food than any other country in the world. Why would anyone want to stop that success?

[johnhynes]

How can you have a ex-Labour minister on to give an objective view of a current Labour governments madness we are truly doomed by this lot

[gordonmcculloch]

Nice to see some balanced assessment allowing me to get to grips with opposing views and make my own mind up

[stevesmith]

More tax rises and who knows what horrors await us before 2029. Imagine how hated Labour will be by then.

[michaelmorley]

We borrow to fund welfare. The truth is, the economy is not big enough to fund the level of welfare spending we have been running at. The only solution is the cut welfare spending to an affordable level. That level will be brutal and therefore will only happen when the Gilt market says with its interest rates demanded, enough is enough. Four years should do it.

[alistairdancepmm]

Andrew Neil is fantastic, as for his guests, if talk was money, Britain would be the richest nation on earth