A shameless 'copy and paste': The Chancellor is trying to patch up her credibility with someone else’s record
4 June 2025, 18:21 | Updated: 5 June 2025, 09:50
By Gareth Bacon
The numbers may be dressed up in new colours, the slogans may be hastily reprinted, but the story Labour is trying to sell you today is one you’ve already heard before.
This is a Chancellor trying to patch up her credibility with someone else’s record. Reeves didn’t write much of this investment package. She’s stapled her name to it, hoping no one would notice. Same routes, same money, just a new driver.
We know the Chancellor has form in trying to pass off the work of others as her own - having lifted passages from her book on 'modern economics' from Wikipedia, but today she took her shameless copying and pasting to new levels.
Greater Manchester £2.5 billion, West Yorkshire £2.1 billion, Tees Valley £1 billion. All figures first laid out by Conservatives back in October 2023, as part of our £36 billion Network North reallocation. The most ambitious investment programme in regional transport for a generation.
And just this morning, one of Reeves’ own Treasury Ministers, Torsten Bell, couldn’t hold the line. Dragged before the DWP Select Committee, he admitted what we already knew:........
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