Shadow Chancellor slams Rachel Reeves's £500 Spring Statement claim as ‘complete nonsense’

Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 30/03/2025

- 10:51

Chancellor Rachel Reeves's pledge that Britons will be £500 better off under the Labour Government is "poppycock", Shadow Chancellor Alex Burghart has claimed.

Laying out her economic plan in the House of Commons this week, Reeves told the House that according to the OBR, Britons will be "on average over £500 a year better off under this Labour Government".

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