Louise Haigh resigned as transport secretary after it emerged she pleaded guilty to a fraud offence.
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In two to three years time, when Starmer and his government are no doubt deeply unpopular, I hope we in the media will ask ourselves: "Why were we so supine during the long 2024 election; why didn't we hold Labour properly to account while we could, and ask more probing questions, and explore their records, rather than give them such an easy ride?".
Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
"Employers aren't working people, they're companies."
Let's look at the facts, shall we?
🔹 99.85% of UK businesses are SMEs. Only 8,335 are big corporates.
🔹 4.7 million people run one-person businesses with no staff.
🔹 The rest are builders, hairdressers, café owners and shopkeepers, grafting 60-hour weeks to employ 12.2 million people.
They do the job by day, the books by midnight, and pay their staff before they pay themselves.
Not working people, @EmmaforWycombe?
They pay your salary and expenses…
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
You can slave away every hour God sends to start or grow your own business.
This Labour Cabinet Minister still won't consider you a "working person".
This sums up their entire approach to the world. Moronic and insulting.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
The “employers are not workers” story has gone global! @timesofindia
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A car crash interview by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds in which she claimed that both employers are not working people and that the additional tax that Labour have just levied on savers and landlords "is not the same as income tax".
That's completely untrue. The tax on savings and property income is indeed income tax, which of course Labour promised not to increase in its election manifesto.
The congenital liar Reeves even specifically confirmed that savers are working people under Labour's definition, saying in 2024 "there are people who do have savings, who have been able to save up and those are working people as well."
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Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
I’ve spent longer as an employer than I have as an MP.
I worked my butt off, and helped create hundreds of jobs.
This Labour minister has NO IDEA what she is talking about
Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
My employer owns a small hospitality company consisting of a hotel, a B&B and a restaurant with guest accommodation employing 20-25 people. He works at least 50 hours a week normally much more.
And yet this idiot, Emma Reynolds, would say he’s not a working people. Ffs 🤬
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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😳really!
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
What an extraordinary statement. Apparently, according to Labour, employers aren't working people. Tell that to the small business owners working 60-hour weeks, risking their savings, paying their staff and keeping their businesses afloat. Labour can play with definitions and indulge in endless whataboutery, but it cannot escape the consequences of its decisions. Taxing employers affects jobs, wages and the very people Labour claims to protect.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
Try telling that to the small business owners working evenings and weekends just to keep their businesses afloat.
Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
This Labour minister doesn’t think employers are ‘working people’.
Beyond belief. 🤯
They treat risk-takers and job creators like a never-ending cash machine to pay for more welfare.
Labour just don’t get it, because so few have worked in the private sector.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Labour minister faces fury after insisting employers are 'not working people' in awkward interview trib.al/sfA27Dv
Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
Oh dear Kay. Possibly the greatest community note in the history of the internet.
Having just left Elmina Castle in Ghana, where enslaved Africans were imprisoned before being shipped across the Atlantic, I think Europeans should never tire of acknowledging the horrors of our shared history and asking forgiveness from our African friends.
Britain played its own shameful part in that history.
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Oops
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Sam Lowry 🇬🇧 retweeted
Employers aren’t working people??
Employing people is one of the hardest jobs there is. And Labour are making it harder.
Building the team to make a business grow is rewarding but also a massive challenge - be great if someone in Labour understood this.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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