However, Phillips stopped Zahawi from going any further and slammed: “We can have an argument about GDP numbers later, what I want to talk to you about is household budgets and what people feel like!”
Zahawi continued: “And so what’s the best way for people to cope with the cost of living, is to have a job we have the highest level of employment…”
Once again, Phillips interrupted Zahawi and said: “This is a great answer, but I am talking to you about people who have a job, who are in work, who are going to find that there are hundreds of pounds coming out of their pocket because of your tax rises!”
“Allow me to finish that point,” Zahawi laughed: “Who are those people, those people are people on Universal Credit right that take, some of them are….”
Published at Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:45:00 +0000
‘Chancellor doesn’t have a plan!’ Trevor Philips blasts Rishi Sunak in rant at Zahawi
