Labour's Emily Thornberry has branded Rishi Sunak a “liar” who “demeans the office of Prime Minister”, following comments he made during last night’s election debate.
The Shadow Attorney General told GB News: “After 14 years of the Conservatives, we have the longest waiting lists that the NHS has ever had. Go figure.
“We've had a Prime Minister who told us that waiting lists were dropping, he lied. He told us that the number of people coming in on boats had gone down. He lied.
“He told us that Labour was going to increase taxes. He lied.
“Unfortunately, we have a Prime Minister who is a liar and he demeans the role of the office of Prime Minister.”
She continued: “He has been abusing the Civil Service and, you know what, we're furious and we're furious on behalf of the British public, because the British people should be able to make decisions on facts and people should put their hand on their heart and tell people the truth.
“If you have a Prime Minister who is so desperate that he will basically just say anything to try to hang on to power, he will lash out at institutions upon which our very State is dependent, then frankly, he ought to go. And hopefully in a month's time he will have.”
Thornberry added: “One by one, as we've made an announcements, we've said ‘this money will come from' and we've said, but I'll tell you what, when the Tories say that they're going to get rid of National Insurance, they have no figures for how they're going to pay for that…how will that get paid?
“What are they going to do when they say that they're going to introduce this? There's the Dad's Army for teenagers. They haven't said how they're going to pay for that. It doesn't make any sense.
“They say that they're going to have a triple lock plus in relation to pensioners. They can't tell us how much that's going to cost or where the money is going to come from.”
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