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Wes Streeting He has said that he is happy that the government can now talk about the problems caused by this BrexitAs the Prime Minister gears up to blame Britain’s exit from the European Union For Britain’s ailing economy.
Speaking on a panel at the Cliveden Literary Festival Health Secretary He said the country faced a “huge amount of threat”.
“We have seen low productivity, low growth rates for over a decade, and so you end up with a higher burden of taxation and people paying more through their taxes and feeling they are getting less,” Mr Streeting said.
Asked how much he blames Brexit for these problems, he said: “It’s part of it. There’s no doubt it’s another problem we’re dealing with.”
“I’m glad Brexit is a problem we now have the courage to name.”
This has come to light quoting sources many times Prime Minister will blame Nigel Farage and Brexit in the November budget as part of a new attack on the Reform UK leader over the expected decline in UK productivity.
Treasury officials are preparing for this Office for Budget Responsibility (def)it Lower your forecasts for productivity growth – A downgrade is likely to occur An extra £20bn shortfall in the November budget. This shortfall is expected to be met by increase in taxes.
sir keer and chancellor Rachel Reeves Plans are reportedly being made to argue that the decline would not have occurred if this had not happened. BrexitBlaming the reform leader for leading the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.
While the Health Secretary said she had the “huge respect” for people voting to leave the EU, she said there had not been a big enough debate about the economic problems it would cause.
He said, “My disappointment about it has been… We were warned that it was going to have an economic impact and it has had an impact. And it has hit our country hard, so we have to deal with Brexit.”
“We have to tackle the structural problems in the British economy, and we’re doing that by creating stability and the conditions in which people can confidently invest in our country, recognizing that governments don’t drive growth, but we can help create the conditions for businesses to grow and flourish, and that’s what we need to do.”
comes after thisIndependent It was revealed that Brexit is costing UK trade £37 billion a year as a result of a 5 per cent decline in trade with the bloc.
While the government has gone some way to relieving the pressure on trade by signing a new association deal with the bloc earlier this year, there are fears it will still not be enough to overcome the headwinds caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union.
The government has previously been reluctant to criticize Brexit, fearing critics would take it as evidence that Labor wants to take Britain back into the EU.
But in recent weeks, the prime minister has stepped up his attacks on Reform UK and Nigel Farage’s role in taking Britain out of the bloc in an effort to turn around Labour’s struggling approval ratings.
Sir Keir used the Labor conference in Liverpool to claim his party is in a “battle for the soul of the country” with Reform UK, and striking back against the “lies and division” of right-wing party populism.