Labor have ‘driven’ the budget ‘off a cliff’: Shadow Treasurer

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says the Albanese Labor government “can’t help itself” but to spend with the surplus being a “fleeting budget”.

“You’ve got a budget here which has been driven off a cliff … it’s going backwards over the coming years, it is a fleeting budget … in terms of the

surplus and it goes in exactly the wrong direction … because this is a government that can’t help itself but to spend,” Mr Taylor told Sky News Australia.

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