Former Conservative cabinet minister Laura Trott welcomes the latest economic figures that show GDP was at 0.6% from April to June but claims Rachel Reeves will be “fuming”. The shadow chief secretary to the treasury insists “this is yet more data to undermine (the chancellor’s) narrative that her economic inheritance is bad”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00These are really positive GDP figures this morning, but the only person who's not out celebrating them is the Chancellor.
00:05You know, Rachel Reeves is sitting in the Treasury fuming because this is yet more data to undermine her
00:11narrative that the economic inheritance was bad, and she can no longer use that as a pretext for the tax rises that she was planning
00:18all along. This is a part of the work that we put into the economy to make sure it was turning a corner, to bring
00:23inflation down, to make sure that economic growth was rising, and this is something which, you know, is turning a corner and is very, very
00:29delicate, so it's something that cannot be put at risk now.
00:31I think the most important thing that we all are doing now is willing the economy on, and it's really important that the Chancellor and
00:38the Treasury do not put this nascent economic growth at risk.
00:41And I think what we've seen so far is an attempt to spread a message about the economic inheritance,
00:46which is just simply a fabrication, and it's really important now that we focus on growth,
00:51trying to get the economy
00:52continuing to grow, and to do the things that we need them to do, like keep taxes low for the British public.