The Labor leader accuses the Conservative Party of “completely losing the thread”

July 26 () –

The leader of the Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has accused the Conservative Party on Tuesday of “completely losing the thread” a day after the candidates to lead the formation and, therefore, become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, hold a televised debate.

Starmer has indicated that the meeting between the Foreign Minister, Liz Truss, and the former Minister of Finance Rishi Sunak shows that it is a party “that has lost its way” and that “it lacks any purpose”, as has picked up the BBC television network.

Thus, he specified that he saw “as much as he could bear” and regretted that the debate served for the candidates to “talk about clothes and earrings instead of addressing the situation of the British health services”, currently immersed in a personnel crisis.

In this sense, he has emphasized that “he will not support any of the economic promises made by the candidates.” “I see how Rishi Sunak, who was in charge of the economy for nothing, acts as if he came from the Moon,” she asserted.

“Now he seems to realize for the first time how bad everything is going and he has said that he will declare the country in crisis if he becomes prime minister. This is not credible,” he said.

In addition, he has indicated that, on the other hand, “you have Liz Truss, who voted to raise taxes and now makes promises without telling anyone how she intends to finance all that.” The minister has argued that a rise in taxes at this time would damage the economy and lead the country into a recession, and has defended “acting as soon as possible” to alleviate the burden that families suffer in order to pay for food and energy.

For his part, Sunak has assured that the tax cuts that his rival intends to introduce would leave a hole of 40,000 million pounds (47,000 million euros) in the public coffers and has stressed that his plan offers long-term solutions to “cure” UK cost of living crisis. “We have to control inflation,” he has expressed.

On September 5, some 200,000 party members are called to vote to elect the new conservative leader and, therefore, the new British prime minister. According to a YouGov poll, among 730 Conservative Party members, 62 percent declared their support for Truss, while 38 percent would back Sunak.