Lisa Nandy says Rachel Reeves is "solely and fiercely focused on the challenges facing the country and doing what is best interest for the country”.

Evening Standard

As Rachel Reeves abandons plan to raise income tax in Budget U-turn, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy tells Sky News that Reeves is "completely focused" on the public interest. Nandy refused to speculate about the finer details of the upcoming budget.

Transcript

00:00We had the Chancellor just a little while ago saying that we all have to play our part in all

00:04of this and now this reporting that one of the main levers, one of the ways of filling that

00:09fiscal black hole of some 30 billion that you say is there, is not going to be taken. It doesn't

00:14seem as if you quite know what you're doing. I've known the Chancellor well for 15 years now and I

00:21can tell you that she is solely and fiercely focused on the challenges facing the country

00:28and doing what is in the best interests of the country. She's never been shy of facing

00:32people down in order to do that in opposition and in government and over the course of the

00:39last few weeks obviously I've had some discussions with her and her team about measures in the

00:45budget that may affect my department, proposals that we're making and discussions that ordinarily

00:50happen across government and in every one of those discussions it's been the public

00:54interests that she's completely focused on.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended