The Conservative Party is ‘becoming completely irrelevant’, says Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves has dismissed the Conservative Party as “becoming completely irrelevant”, in response to a question posed by shadow chancellor Mel Stride.

Stride asked the chancellor for “precisely which business confidence survey” she could cite to support her claim that the economy “has turned a corner”.

Reeves responded: “Well, the PwC [PricewaterhouseCoopers] survey of global CEOs says that Britain is the second best place in the world to invest – that’s just one of the surveys that backs what this government is doing.

“But the shadow chancellor just simply isn’t serious and his party is becoming completely irrelevant. Now he talks about jobs – 200,000 jobs have been created since the general election.”

She added: “We have secured three trade agreements which are backed by British businesses and British trade unions, and every single one of them, the party opposite opposes.

“No wonder even George Osborne says the shadow chancellor has no credible economic plan.”

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