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SHADOW Home Secretary Chris Philp has said that Labour’s new plan to be launched today will be a “desperate, panicky” re-launch by a failing government. Speaking on GB News, he said: “What we’re going to see today is essentially a desperate, panicky attempted relaunch by Keir Starmer of his government after only five months, because they are failing so desperately. “We’ve seen the winter fuel payment being stripped from pensioners, including pensioners in poverty. We’ve seen these massive, massive tax rises, which Labour lied about during the election campaign. “They said there were not going to be significant tax increases. That’s turned out to be a complete lie, and they’ve hit all of us with these massive tax rises, which people like the CBI and the retail sector and the hospitality industry tell us is going to result, not only in lower wages for working people, but also actual job losses. “And all the while Keir Starmer was loading up on freebies from Lord Alli and handing out bumper inflation busting pay rises to his trade union bosses, and that’s why…his approval rating has plummeted. “The figure I saw was minus 32% so it’s no wonder he’s trying this desperate, panicky relaunch to try and rescue what has been a catastrophic start to government.” Philp added: “The announcement we’re going to get today from Keir Starmer on policing is predictably a bogus, dishonest and misleading announcement. “He’s going to announce, I believe, 13,000 more police officers, but it turns out only 3,000 of those are actually new, and he’s not even giving the police enough money to pay for those new officers. So they’re going to have to cut something else, probably cut police numbers elsewhere, in order to deliver his promise. “So even today’s announcement is going to be completely dishonest, just like Labour’s entire election campaign.” On tax rises for farmers, he said: “They continued with this awful plan that we’ll see farms being lost. It’ll damage our food security. It means we’ll end up importing more food, and it will actually put up food prices for all of us. “So this terrible idea of Labour’s to attack farms is going to – it actually won’t just affect farmers. It’ll actually end up affecting all of us in the form of higher food prices, and we’re going to have to import more food from overseas as well. But we’re going to keep the battle up. We’re going to keep working with the National Farmers Union. “We’re going to keep finding ways in Parliament to put Labour on the spot and try and engineer further votes, because we on the Conservative side are standing firmly with our farmers, just as we are standing with the pensioners who Labour have attacked, just as we’re standing with the businesses who Labour have attacked, and just as we are standing with working people who Labour have also attacked with their swinging tax rises.”

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