{"id":549758,"date":"2025-11-05T02:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549758\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:37:14","slug":"rachel-reeves-mocked-for-blaming-brexit-for-dire-economic-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549758\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves mocked for blaming Brexit for dire economic forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been dubbed “silly” for attempting to shift blame for Labour’s upcoming fiscal decisions on the long-term impact of Brexit.<\/p>\n

Giving a verdict on the upcoming Budget, The Spectator’s economics editor, Michael Simmons, blasted Ms Reeves for blaming the economic challenges on the 2016 vote.<\/p>\n

“She knew about all of this when she took office! It makes her look silly,” he told GB News star Patrick Christys.<\/p>\n

He added: “I think it’s bizarre to blame all these things Brexit, the pandemic or whatever. <\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/p>\n

Rachel Reeves has assigned blame to a multitude of factors for the dire economic forecast<\/p>\n

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GB NEWS\/PA<\/p>\n

“Because she knew about those things when she took office. She could have saw it this out in the first Budget.”<\/p>\n

In October, Ms Reeves highlighted the “long-term” damage done to the British economy by Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, giving her penny’s worth at a key international economic committee at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). <\/p>\n

She told chief bankers and economic gurus: “The UK’s productivity challenge has been compounded by the way in which the UK left the European Union.”<\/p>\n

Since rising to power, Labour’s top team has committed to resetting EU relations, launching negotiations in May earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Today, Ms Reeves attempted to steer the blame on a number of factors, from Brexit to the Tories’ lasting economic legacy trickling into Labour’s reign. <\/p>\n

Delivering the unprecedented pre-Budget speech in the heart of Westminster this morning, the Chancellor refused to rule out slapping Britons with a fresh wave of tax raids.<\/p>\n

As a result, the nation is bracing for the upcoming Budget on November 26 after she announced a \u00a340billion tax raid last October. <\/p>\n

Yet, throughout the General Election campaign, Labour candidates vowed to not raise VAT, income tax or National Insurance if Sir Keir Starmer was handed the keys to No10. <\/p>\n

\"RachelRachel Reeves gave a major Budget update earlier today, seemingly opening the door to further huge tax rises | REUTERS<\/p>\n

Responding to the Downing Street speech on Tuesday morning, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch dubbed it “one long waffle bomb” and a “laundry list of excuses”.<\/p>\n

“She blamed everybody else for her own choices, her own decisions, her own failures,” Mrs Badenoch slammed.<\/p>\n

First, No11 attempted to pin blame on the Tories, Liz Truss’ infamous mini-Budget and Brexit. <\/p>\n

Ms Reeves also implied the blame lies with Donald Trump by mentioning that the “threat of tariffs has dragged on global confidence”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been dubbed “silly” for attempting to shift blame for Labour’s upcoming fiscal decisions on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,54718,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,1232,12,285,619,16,3106,15,6225],"class_list":{"0":"post-549758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-budget-2025","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-money","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-rachel-reeves","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-uk-politics","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-video-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115494770857529566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549758","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=549758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}