Speaking on the first full day of his election campaign, the prime minister told voters in Derbyshire that Labour policies would cost taxpayers £2,000 each.He said: “The only certainty you get with the Labour Party is that they will run out of money and they will put your taxes up as clear as night follows day.“All the things they want to do, all the things they want to spend money on – you tot all that up, it’s going to cost you £2,000, every working family in our country.
However, as people pointed out on X, a report from January shows the average Brit is already nearly £2,000 worse off due tocommissioned by City Hall, revealed that there were two million job losses nationwide in the financial services and construction sectors as a result of leaving the bloc.May 23, 2024
And, speaking to the Tory conference last October, he said the economy had grown faster than France and Germany not “concluded that only 18% of those who voted Leave in 2016 think Brexit is going well; 22% decided it was going badly or very badly, and a quarter think the UK economy has weakened since the referendum.While Sunak may be pleased the economy has improved – inflation has fallen to 2.3% – there are plenty of stats suggesting Brits are still worse off due to the cost of living crisis.