‘No thank you very much!’: Keir Starmer rejects Badenoch’s ‘advice’ on the economy

The prime minister accused Kemi Badenoch of asking “fantasy” questions at PMQs on Wednesday as he rubbished the Conservative Party’s economic record.

Badenoch, the Tory leader, argued the PM has nothing to offer expect “platitudes” and ridiculed the government’s “ideological budget”.

She told the House: “The fact is that they do not know what they’re doing. Their ideological budget was designed to milk the private sector and hope nobody would notice. Now his cabinet ministers are all queuing up for public sector bailouts to his tax mess.”

Badenoch asked: “If he is going to bail out the public sector, then can he tell us this? Does he think it is appropriate, as the ministry for housing has done, to approve a four day week for councils?”

Starmer responded: “Questions based on what we’re actually doing are usually better than fantasy questions made up.”

He went on: “What did they deliver in fourteen years? Low growth, a stagnant economy, a disastrous mini-budget, a £22 billion black hole. And now she wants to give me advice on running the economy. I don’t want to be rude. But no thank you very much.”

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