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Minister says Labour should not ‘apologise’ after criticism over ‘doom and gloom’ message

By Editorial Board Published September 25, 2024 4 Min Read
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Minister says Labour should not ‘apologise’ after criticism over ‘doom and gloom’ message

Labour shouldn’t be “apologising” for declaring the financial legacy they inherited from the Tories, a cupboard minister has stated.

Pat McFadden, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, rejected accusations that Labour had been projecting an excessive amount of “doom and gloom” since their landslide election win.

He stated highlighting the financial scenario was an necessary a part of the general public accepting the social gathering’s “change agenda”.

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Mr McFadden, a veteran politician from the years of Tony Blair, argued that whereas the Tories “got away with talking about the inheritance from the previous Labour government for 10 years, we’re told we can’t even talk about it in the first 10 weeks of taking office”.

Chatting with The Guardian at a fringe occasion on the Labour convention in Liverpool, Mr McFadden stated: “This is an important part of explaining what we’re dealing with – we’re dealing with black hole in our public finances, an NHS on its knees, and a prison crisis that was so desperate we were days away from the system completely toppling over.

“I do not assume we ought to be apologising for pointing this out – it is a necessary a part of what we do now.

“We’ve got work to do to sort that out, and I totally believe in our change agenda – but people will not understand what we’re doing unless we explain the inheritance that we have.”

He added: “Frankly, it’s time we were serious about the future governance of the country. We’ve had politics as a show where the public weren’t told the truth. We’re supposed to be different from that.”

Since taking workplace, Labour have informed how they’ve inherited a £22bn black gap within the public funds that has necessitated the social gathering taking “tough choices” round spending, together with the choice to scrap winter gas funds for many pensioners.

The transfer – which has been criticised by a number of the social gathering’s personal MPs – has been juxtaposed alongside detrimental headlines about senior Labour politicians accepting freebies and perks.

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PM desires ‘transparency’ over donations

Sir Keir Starmer declared receiving £12,588 in items from the Premier League, together with tickets for Arsenal matches totalling greater than £6,000.

The prime minister additionally obtained and disclosed different items from Lord Alli totalling £39,122.

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These donations included an unspecified donation of lodging price £20,437, “work clothing” price £16,200, and a number of pairs of glasses equal to £2,485.

The Conservatives have attacked Sir Keir for accepting the items concurrently decreasing entry to the winter gas allowance, however Mr McFadden defended the prime minister, saying he had “declared everything”.

Mr McFadden stated: “I regard it as it was part of the campaign, he was in (the) public eye for six weeks.

“Waheed [Lord Alli] has helped them in that regard, in being (within the) public eye. He is correctly declared every little thing.”

Challenged on whether the issue may not be about the “guidelines” but the “optics”, Mr McFadden replied: “Individuals at all times say that.

“If the donation had been given in a different way, would people feel differently about it? I don’t know.

“However what I’ve discovered, I believe, studying these headlines is that this notion of false equivalence – this try to say they’re all the identical. I do not imagine that.”

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