"I don't like that sort of stuff. I don't do it. I try to concentrate on policies rather than personalities. I would just say that Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss's budget, she said was 100 per cent right, so I'm not totally sure whether her judgment chimes with the British public. But as a politician, I have always tried to focus on the issues and not the personalities. It's just not the sort of politics that I do. So, yes, I was a bit uncomfortable listening to that, because it's not really the way that I behave, but people are entitled to deliver the Budget response that they want and she focused on personalities. I would have preferred to hear Kemi Badenoch set out her alternative economic proposals. We haven't heard that."
"We've set the spending envelope for the course of this parliament, but we don't need to come back for more."
"That wasn't true was it?"
Rachel Reeves was shown a previous interview in which she said, "We've set the spending envelope for the course of this parliament, but we don't need to come back for more." Trevor Phillips questioned that claim. Reeves said she felt uncomfortable with Kemi Badenoch's mocking and impersonation of the Chancellor and stated she focuses on policies rather than personalities. Reeves said she would have preferred to hear alternative economic proposals from Badenoch. Commentary argued the chancellor and prime minister repeatedly fail to plan ahead and that the return of the "l-word" affects taxes. A property market figure warned a landlord tax could reduce supply and push rents higher.
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