Keir Starmer calls Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt ‘Chuckle Brothers of decline’

Keir Starmer calls Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt the 'Chuckle Brothers of decline'Source: Reuters

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00:00 The Chancellor, who breezes into this chamber in a recession and tells the working people

00:07 of this country that everything's on track. Crisis, what crisis? Or, as the captain of

00:14 the Titanic and the former Prime Minister herself might have said, iceberg, what iceberg?

00:21 Smiling as the ship goes down, the Chuckle Brothers of decline, dreaming of Santa Monica

00:27 or maybe just a quiet life in Surrey, not having to self-fund his election, whilst the

00:34 crew behind them scrabble for food being moved. If only it weren't so serious, because, Madam

00:43 Deputy Speaker, the story of this Parliament is devastatingly simple. A Conservative party

00:49 stubbornly clinging to the failed ideas of the past, completely unable to generate the

00:55 growth working people need, and forced by that failure to ask them to pay more and more

01:03 for less and less. And as the desperation grows, they torch not only their reputation

01:11 for fiscal responsibility, but any notion that they can serve the country, not themselves.

01:18 Party first, country second, while working people pay the price.

01:22 Cut!

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