WAS that it?

Last year, Labour gave us the

Chancellor John Healey holds up the red Budget box outside Number 11 Downing Street.
John Healey has delivered a Budget for just getting by, not getting on, according to the Tory leader Credit: Alamy
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking in the House of Commons.
Kemi Badenoch says her party will cut government spending by over £70billion Credit: PA

This year, has delivered a Budget for just getting by, not getting on.

Under Labour, Britain is spending more on debt interest than on the and combined.

The benefits bill is going up by tens of billions of pounds. Next year, the tax burden will be the highest in our country’s history.

Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in June, because the government wouldn’t fund defence to three per cent of GDP.

Yet he couldn’t even find the cash in to

Labour has made hiring more expensive with their tax, more expensive with Net Zero policies, and more expensive with their excessive borrowing.

There is a better way. The Conservatives will cut government spending by over £70billion, including £36billion from the

We will use half that to cut the deficit, so Britain doesn’t go bankrupt, and with the rest we will properly fund our defence and cut your taxes.

That is the the Chancellor should have delivered.

The Budget he gave was simply not enough.