Economy, tax and spending

“People who work on the NHS, especially with the cost of living now, they think, I work this stressful job, I put in all these hours, and yet my pay barely covers my bills.”

“If you also, I mean, we're going to have a really dangerous problem very shortly when all these new prisoners are released”

“it's your party that makes us feel miserable, frustrated, and exhausted, and we get no time off from you.”

“Like, he's a Brit popper, he's cool, it's all about the vibes. But actually, underneath it, there's a very hard-faced, sour socialism. He will go hard left, this guy, he will.”

“You create the conditions for ordinary people to get going.”

“Like, actually, no, he's absolutely wrong. Because my family came from the working classes, and they did improve their standard of living. So no, I'm not silly.”

“I think Keir Starmer just has absolutely no feeling for what is going on in the country. I think they have been thinking up until now that they haven't been left wing enough.”

“this is chickens coming home to roost, right? This is what people have been saying for years. The lack of foresight, the lack of spending on defence, the constant cuts.”

“They just speak in rhetoric, but they're not willing to confront any of the structural issues that are preventing this from happening.”