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Treasury minister Bim Afolami says a vote for Reform ‘is a vote for Keir Starmer’ and insists Tories will not give up the fight

Shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has been on the defensive in an interview on Sky News about whether the Labour manifesto lacks new ideas. He told viewers: We’re offering, when it comes to things like industrial strategy, like ambition on the energy transition – the most ambitious programme that actually has ever been offered by a potential incoming government on things like fuel poverty.

We’re offering on people’s employment rights and security in the workplace a comprehensive package that would make a difference to them, and we’re offering on public services, in health, in education, immediate improvements, immediate investment of resources that would make a difference. Saying that “Labour had to respond to that big defeat in 2019”, he added Labour’s recent byelection victories had not been achieved “just because the Conservative party’s record in Government is dire.

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