GB News presenter Martin Daubney challenged Conservative MP Gareth Davies over his party's economic record during a heated exchange about Rachel Reeves' spring statement where he told the MP to "take responsibility".
The direct question came after Davies had criticised the Chancellor's statement as an "emergency budget" designed to address what he called "mistakes" in her autumn Budget.
Gareth Davies, speaking to GB News said: "I was Exchequer Secretary before the election. I worked on Budgets. I know how hard it is to make these decisions.
"When you have externalities and global factors that do impact your domestic economy, but what you don't do is overextend your economy.
Gareth Davies blasted the Labour party for "blaming everyone else"
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"You don't increase spending by £70 billion. You don't impose a £25 billion tax on businesses that will harm growth.
"You don't overexpose our country to those global shocks. And that's exactly what she did.
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"That's why we've been calling it an emergency budget, she said originally she was just going to read out the spring statement of what the OBR assessment of the economy is, but she's announced new policies today because she had to make up £14 billion of lost money because of her autumn Budget.
"It is an absolute disgrace and I think people your viewers, are rightly outraged by this."
Martin Daubney asked: "Gareth Davies, how would anything be different with the Conservative Party?
"People were feeling the pinch when you were in power. Why should we believe that you would make things any better if you were to be in power?"
He explained: "It's a fair challenge. We went through a really traumatic time in the last few years, obviously with the pandemic and then the war in Ukraine pushed up energy prices, which pushed up inflation. But we had just started to get that under control."
Martin said: "The same as the Chancellor. You're blaming everything but yourself. It was Ukraine. It was energy prices. When will governments take responsibility?"
He said: "Because it was a genuine issue that we had a global pandemic and a war in Ukraine that broke out in 2022. We are not in a crisis now where we have a global pandemic.
"We have calm times. We delivered the fastest growth in the G7. It has now plummeted. We deliver two per cent inflation, which is the target.
Gareth Davies faced a grilling from Martin Daubney
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"It is now going to go above three per cent. Unbelievably, they criticised us for racking up debt, which we admit we did because we supported people through the pandemic. But it is going up even higher under this Chancellor."
Reeves had told MPs that "the world has changed" since her October budget, blaming external factors for the cuts and downgrades announced.
Critics, however, maintain the statement is a direct consequence of Labour's decisions since taking office last July.
The spring statement revealed a significant downgrade in UK growth forecasts, with the OBR halving the 2025 prediction from 2 per cent to just 1 per cent.
