Rachel Reeves

I mean, who knows how many Tories have defected today.

But, you know, he's got a small number of MPs.

He's lost almost as many MPs as he's gained in this Parliament because he's incapable of working with others.

I'm not worried about Nigel Farage.

I believe that our plan is the right one.

We are improving the cost of living for working people in Britain.

We're bringing investment to Britain.

Inflation and interest rates are coming down.

This year, last year we had the second fastest growing economy in the G7.

Our plan is the right one.

It will begin to reap dividends this year, especially as inflation gets back to target and the benefits of those trade deals begin to flow.

I mean, you know, you've got these people who were defeated a year and a half ago in a general election.

Robert Jenrick, Andrew Rosendale, the other people whose names no one remembers, who lost the support of the British public a year ago, who are now changing the rosettes and think that that will change their fortunes.

It won't, and I do believe that the British public will see through that.

They kicked the Tories out for a reason.

They're not going to just re-elect them because they're now wearing a teal rosette rather than a blue one.

We have just had a budget, and what I was able to do in that budget was to build a headroom of £21.7 billion, more than doubling the headroom against our fiscal rules.

I think that now puts us in a very strong position that we will not need to do more on that front.

I'm not going to be able to write future budgets today.

The world is a very uncertain place, but that increase in the headroom was very much, I think, welcomed by markets.