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sir keir starmer reportedly preparing to plead guilty Nigel Farage and the expected fall in productivity in the UK budget over Brexit, as part of a new attack on the Reform UK leader.
Treasury officials are preparing for this Office for Budget Responsibility (def)it Lower your forecasts for productivity growthA downgrade that creates the expected An extra £20bn shortfall in the November budget. This shortfall is expected to be met by increase in taxes.
But sources said many times sir keer And Rachel Reeves Planning to argue that this decline would not have occurred if it had not BrexitBlaming the reform leader for leading the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.
it comes afterIndependent 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.
Sir Keir had previously accused Mr Farage of “fanciful” economics, compared him to former Tory PM Liz Truss and claimed his tax cut promises would “destroy the economy”.
But the Prime Minister has stepped up his attacks on Mr Farage in recent weeks, using the Labor conference to claim his party is in a “battle for the soul of the country” with Reform UK, hitting back against the “lies and division” of the right-wing party’s populism.
The Prime Minister pledged to defend in an impassioned 54-minute speech at the party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday British flags from far right Following a summer in which they became the center of the culture wars.
Claiming that Mr Farage “doesn’t like Britain”, the Prime Minister insisted Labor is a “patriotic party” and used his address to set out his vision for a “land of dignity and respect”.
He warned that Mr Farage and the politics of reform, which he said would threaten the livelihoods of thousands of legal immigrants, were “racist” and said anyone who argues that people who have lived here for generations should now be deported is “the enemy of national renewal”.
The Prime Minister’s new style of attack in the Budget is likely to come with a series of even tougher choices for the government.
There is growing expectation that the Treasury will have to increase taxes by up to £30 billion in the upcoming Budget, as a result of sluggish productivity, government U-turns and higher-than-expected interest payments.
Ms Reeves faces mounting pressure to save Britain’s troubled finances in the budget, but the government has repeatedly said it will not increase VAT, income tax or National Insurance rates in the budget in November.
Downing Street has been contacted for comment.