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Is Labour the party of sleaze and lies? Let’s start with the sleaze. Chancellor Rachel Reeves took \u00a3600 worth of free tickets to see a concert by Sabrina Carpenter, who, ironically, has a song called Buy Me Presents.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a little look at what we think Rachel Reeves’ income might be per year. Today, it was announced that MP salaries are rising by 2.8 per cent to around \u00a394,000 a year. <\/p>\n

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As Chancellor, she reportedly receives roughly \u00a367,000 a year. On top of that, she and her husband, a senior civil servant, reportedly make \u00a374,000 a year as landlords, and his salary is reported as being as much as \u00a3174,000. <\/p>\n

So, that is a combined total of somewhere in the region of \u00a3402,000 a year. So, she still takes freebies, does she? Well, of course, it was all for security reasons.<\/p>\n

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What? You couldn\u2019t pay for those tickets? Oh, come on. But her own colleagues have had enough of that, and I\u2019m not surprised, really. Cabinet minister Heidi Alexander slapped Reeves down this morning.<\/p>\n

The Chancellor has already made cuts for pensioners, cuts for farmers, cuts for the disabled. And today it\u2019s been revealed that she\u2019s about to cut \u00a3500 million from state schools.<\/p>\n

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This is after her VAT raid on private schools has forced some of them to close. More sleaze. Now, Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, randomly went to Ethiopia. The trip cost the taxpayer \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n

There is no good reason why she needed to be there, but here we go. It turns out Ms Rayner asked if she could go on a taxpayer-funded private safari trip while she was there, and civil servants had to tell her that wasn\u2019t really appropriate.<\/p>\n

This is from the woman who jokingly tells a story about how the Prime Minister invited her round to his Number Ten flat, and when he left the room, she just opened a bottle of whisky and helped herself.<\/p>\n

It turned out that was a precious gift from a friend’s dad. I mean, who does that? What kind of person just comes round to your house and opens a bottle of whisky and helps themselves when you\u2019re not in the room? Oh, sorry, a raging socialist.<\/p>\n

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Now, of course, we\u2019ve got the mistruths as well. Forget the little things like whether or not the Business Secretary was actually a solicitor, whether or not the Chancellor actually worked as an economist, or whether the Prime Minister deliberately represented foreign Islamist terrorists.<\/p>\n

Just the little stuff. Anyway, Keir Starmer reportedly told 25 porky pies in just half an hour at last week\u2019s Prime Minister’s Questions\u201425.<\/p>\n

These include things like ignoring the fact that Labour\u2019s new Employment Rights Bill imposes \u00a35 billion of cuts onto businesses, including 67 per cent of small businesses, which will now probably close or at least stop hiring new staff. He said the Tories opposed raising the minimum wage.<\/p>\n

That is not true. The Conservatives did not oppose the rise of the minimum wage, and the Tories actually raised the minimum wage by 72 per cent since 2010.<\/p>\n

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Starmer says that he\u2019s investing in policing. Police forces say they\u2019re actually going to have to cut the number of police officers. Starmer said we\u2019re speeding up new infrastructure projects, slashing red tape, and getting Britain building. The reality? He\u2019s created 27 new quangos, \u00a35 billion a year in new regulation, and cut housing targets in cities.<\/p>\n

But while we\u2019re on housing, another thing they\u2019ve been very vague about is who is going to live in these new houses. More on that later, by the way. But no doubt, there will be foreigners and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister said we\u2019ve announced the largest defence increase since the Cold War. Not true. He\u2019s confirmed \u00a36 billion worth of funding but claimed that it would be \u00a313 billion. Conceivably, Prime Minister Keir Starmer could have to come back to Parliament to correct the record 25 times based on last week\u2019s PMQs alone.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Chancellor will stand up and announce a spring statement that may very well make you and everyone you know poorer.<\/p>\n

And just think about this: it is staggering how easily mistruths roll off the Prime Minister\u2019s tongue. It is astonishing how bad the stench of sleaze is around this Labour government. Let\u2019s go.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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