{"id":516506,"date":"2025-10-21T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516506\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:10:06","slug":"never-her-fault-rachel-reeves-blasted-for-blaming-uks-economic-woes-on-brexit-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516506\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Never her fault’: Rachel Reeves blasted for blaming UK’s economic woes on Brexit | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Reeves\u2019 attempt to blame Britain\u2019s problems on Brexit indicates that she consistently making the \u201cwrong choices\u201d, shadow chancellor Mel Stride has claimed in a stinging attack. Ms Reeves, speaking at the weekend, suggested the decision to quit the European Union<\/a> was hampering the nation\u2019s economic performance, pointing to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s calculation of a 4% long-term hit compared with having remained in the bloc.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time the numbers don\u2019t add up, Rachel Reeves<\/a> blames someone else. This isn\u2019t about events or excuses. It\u2019s about choices. And Rachel Reeves<\/a> is making the wrong ones \u2013 letting spending spiral, failing to reform welfare, and hammering families with higher taxes to cover her own economic mismanagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Stride continued: “Under her watch, inflation has doubled, debt has ballooned, and borrowing costs have hit a 27-year high.<\/p>\n

“The markets are losing confidence \u2013 and so is Keir Starmer<\/a>, who\u2019s now quietly building his own Treasury operation in Downing Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cA theme is emerging: when things go wrong, it\u2019s never Rachel Reeves<\/a>\u2019 fault \u2013 but it\u2019s always your family that pays the price.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly the Conservatives<\/a> will deliver a stronger economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Reeves, the Labour MP for Leeds West, strongly campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum, warning that Brexit<\/a> would impoverish the country and cost jobs.<\/p>\n

She advocated ending free movement as a red line while seeking maximal access to the single market and customs union to safeguard economic growth, and she supported a confirmatory people’s vote on any deal, opposing a hard Brexit<\/a> that would disrupt trade.<\/p>\n

Despite reservations, Ms Reeves voted for Boris Johnson<\/a>‘s Withdrawal Agreement in late 2019 and early 2020 to ‘get Brexit<\/a> done’ and prevent further delays.<\/p>\n

In her present role, she has frequently lambasted what she sees as the deal’s economic harm and committed to resetting UK-EU ties through targeted measures like mutual recognition of qualifications and eased touring for artists, whilst ruling out rejoining the EU, single market, or customs union in the near term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves\u2019 attempt to blame Britain\u2019s problems on Brexit indicates that she consistently making the \u201cwrong choices\u201d, shadow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,1700,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,51100,168529,619,16,10051,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-516506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-mel-stride","18":"tag-mel-stride-mp","19":"tag-rachel-reeves","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-uk-economy","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}