No public service spending cuts under Labour says Reeves

We speak to Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, whose party came out with some new policy proposals on housing today.
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We asked the potential future Chancellor how a Labour government plans to maintain public spending in an economic climate of high interest rates and a cost of living crisis.
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[@SirAmicVarze]

How long do we think it'll be before Labour U-turns on this one too?

[@PrinsTan]

On what? There isn’t anything to u-turn on here

[@jerryowston4511]

BREAKING NEWS - They already have.

[@IveJustHadAPiss]

Public services are on their knees, so effectively promising to maintain the status quo doesn't exactly me fill me with excitement.

[@Nigelfarij]

They're not promising to maintain the status quo. "No spending cuts" means they will spend the same amount but everything's getting more expensive. It's "no spending cuts" not "no service cuts".

[@beckiebeckiebeck]

She literally said she wants to put more into public services. Were you watching a different video?

[@BigBoiiLeem]

It may not fill you with excitement, but it doesn't fill you with fear either. We must always remember that despite all of their very obvious flaws, they are better than the alternative, which in itself is better than nothing.

[@CockWomble1000]

@@felixsmith5234Jezza taught them a good lesson. Wait till they in 😊

[@history3042]

No cuts doesnt mean raises in line with inflation either which is essentially a cut.

[@majoritytroll]

Okay those knuckleheads are just TRYING to lose now.

[@eddouglas]

Can't believe a word of it - and massive investment is needed, not "fiscal responsibility" - that's code for fiscal irresponsibility. Rebuilding the country is what's needed, not table scraps until the establishment and the Tories get back in.

[@tonygibson8524]

She's a politician, you don't believe her if she tells you the sun has risen.

[@belkentens]

Have the tories given borris’s phone to the covid inquiry yet

[@midnightgaming9849]

lol

[@shoelessjoe428]

What about renationalisation? The case for it has never been stronger. Compare out energy bills to other major European nations. Look at what's happened to our NHS since the 2012 HSCA encouraged fragmentation and privatisation. We literally have p** floating in the sea! Our transport costs routinely rise at more than inflation. When core services are privatised, we need them more than they need us and competition is non existant. Why is Labour so gutless when it comes to standing up for the interests of ordinary working class people?

[@quwipyui6519]

the peoples lives like the slaves on this country poverty and poverty this is the future of the country absolutely unacceptable

[@Jen-lg4hp]

That'll be a massive increase in taxes then- "You'll own nothing and be happy". Starmer must have his orders from Davos.

[@reallymakesyouthink]

The term "Labour promises" is an oxymoron.

[@Sdakouls3]

Now do the Tories' "40 new hospitals".

[@reallymakesyouthink]

@@Sdakouls3 same applies to Tories

[@cdean2789]

Where's that bus gone

[@reallymakesyouthink]

@@cdean2789 what bus?

[@cdean2789]

@@reallymakesyouthink the Brexit Bus with the lie on it's side.

[@elainecameron5545]

We dont believe in you labour

[@clovenbullet]

no cuts because they've already been made

[@marchumphreys3865]

Martin Lewis for PM !

[@SStone-dm7es]

Rachael Scary Voice Reeves

[@stevenlynas8930]

We know all about Starmer and his promises! The man has broken all the promises he made to get elected leader of the new tory party!

[@jerryowston4511]

Green chancellor? Green behind the ears. Its like an interview between Zippy and Bungle of no answers on anything, isn't it Geoffrey?

[@chiragshetty4608]

U need to cut spending if you want inflation under control .

[@notofthisworld7777]

Doctors and nurses don't like the pay find another job. You chose the profession. Where not paying for your greed, end of...

[@faithingod5533]

Yeah screw it just raise taxes and spend even more money we don't have...

[@belkentens]

Blah blah nonsense nothing story

[@earthervsearther5978]

labour will just spend all your tax on building contractors and we will have lots of empty buildings

[@hickorywind7859]

Tories spend tax on over-priced PPE from chums and then set fire to it, Tories also spend tax on Brexit car parks and Nightingale hospitals from donors that are never used, Tories will talk about levelling up for years and then only allocate money to the least deprived areas that are coincidently constituencies of cabinet ministers. But what about Labour he says ...

[@davebirch1976]

It says OXO on the side of buses, it doesn't mean they sell them 😂😂😂

[@LordBikealot]

HA! You really believe anything they say?!?

[@terencefield3204]

Every year is 1945 for the Labour Party antiques. Reeves is Stafford Cripps with attitude. Britain is clearly done now. It is officially described as emerging third world, borrows to repay the debt interest {!} yes that is the level of total failure there now. Reeves is a tub thumping throw back to a misinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution. Why she had the elocution lessons I do not know, I so much preferred hee prior foghorn voice, as it was honest. She is a dupe of the class system. And she loves it that way.

[@anthonyf7821]

Very dangerous clueless woman

[@martinchantrill8922]

Bet they do

[@donttrip8282]

I was just going to put it down to Labour's lurch to the right that is making news presenters sound more left wing, but I think things are also so bad now it is effecting their class interests too from higher mortgages to climate crisis. Shame they convinced folk that voting for real change was unrealistic, grown up politics now, where we look at drastic problems and say the sensible thing to do is change as little as possible... 🥴

[@notofthisworld7777]

Promises to give the public more money in there wallets. Just a false promise, from labour. Do us a favour and stop voting for clowns, and free yourself from these leaches.

[@cdean2789]

Tax the Rich.

[@kofiboxton7037]

She sounds like kier stammer

[@andrewwalsh2755]

No... if you listen, she always mentions a get-out clause... Starmer made Pledges... written pledges... No ifs, no buts... Then... he's "pragmatic not ideological"... "circumstances have changed"... yesterday, as hopeful leader, he was not-a-Zionist, today, as leader, he wants to rip out antizionists...

[@johnwoods7650]

Is she a member of Wagner?

[@allaboutspurs792]

...until next weeks u-turn.

[@jasonking2976]

No cuts doesn't mean that there will be increases. So, vote Labour and things won't get any worse. Catchy slogan that.

[@Sdakouls3]

Still objectively better than life under the Tories.

[@earthervsearther5978]

labour and tory limbo

[@Mike_5]

Promising no cuts is a very good thing but anyone with a brain knows that the costs will have to come from somewhere ...

[@NaaahBruv]

£500 Billion of UK money currently sat in tax havens.

[@Mike_5]

@@NaaahBruv Then include that in the Labour Manifesto ...

[@user-il6ve2vc4i]

Na, Uckermark-Stinker? Was los?

[@cdean2789]

I like clean air

[@Sdakouls3]

Questions about London ULEZ were lazy bait. That's not something Reeves can impact on any way, even if she became Chancellor. Poor interviewing, just looking to trip someone up.

[@psylocko]

Sure. Bring Inflation back again....let's live the tragedy of the 70s.

[@JackKing12.]

Spending your way into debt...great plan labour...😂

[@cdean2789]

We want Rent Control.

[@DanYule55]

The more promises you make the harder it becomes to keep them... Labour should keep that in mind.

[@Sdakouls3]

Given the rate at which Starmer has been jettisoning previous promises, I don't think that will be a problem. In any case, most UK voters have goldfish memories.

[@andrewwalsh2755]

Once you've been duped to vote for them... it doesn't matter! (ask Labour members!) Google Kier Strmer+Broken pledges

[@VK6AB-]

Of course, the ALP managerial class will work from home whilst the private sector works in the mines,the fields, the streets, the factories and on the building sites to pay for their lifestyles. Champagne socialism 101.

[@CockWomble1000]

Rachel Reeves. Unstoppable ❤🤘

[@jerryowston4511]

Yeap, you can't stop anyone who hasn't even got started, more flip-flops and non specific rubbery phrases than Corbyn on antisemitism.

[@CockWomble1000]

@@jerryowston4511 Jezza trigger warning ! 🤣🤘you guys

[@donttrip8282]

Yeah, austerity under a different name 🤟🥴

[@CockWomble1000]

@@donttrip8282 it ain’t gonna go away over night dude. Gonna take a lot of time and effort to get back to where we were befire

[@donttrip8282]

@@CockWomble1000 we won't get there via austerity lite

[@hourbee5535]

Higher taxes and more refugees! Vote Labour!

[@michaelrch]

No. Same taxes. Same refugees. Labour offer nothing different.

[@dambrooks7578]

Do you believe that the Tories are doing a good job currently then?

[@michaelrch]

@@dambrooks7578 No. Which is why we need actual change of policy. Not just the b-team with the exact same policy.

[@dambrooks7578]

@@michaelrch Indeed, I would rather that the entire electoral system was brought into the 21st century instead of being wedded to the 16th century and school times only, it gives far too much time off for those that are self-serving swines.

[@andrewwalsh2755]

This ain't Labour... it's Zionist Labour... The antithesis of Labour. Don't taint the blessed memory of True Labour with the lies, deceit, dishonesty and creeping fascism of this lot...

[@jonathanenglish2024]

Reeves does a good job.

[@SA-ff9uc]

She's thick as mince and want to bail out borrow to let landlords.

[@tyler6539]

By Tory standards, yes

[@RealBobWilkins]

Uk excess deaths. Ons website look at them.

[@donnyrutter3936]

1 term Labour if they back ULEZ.

[@odradekk]

good news for the bone