Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride branded the spring statement a “surrender statement”, and accused the Government of giving up on the British people.He said: “Is that it? What utter complacency, a Chancellor in denial. She speaks of stability, what planet is (the Chancellor) on?“She has lurched from putting up taxes to destroying growth, to destroying headroom, to coming back to putting up more taxes, more growth destroyed. Round and round we go, like a fiscal twister ripping up everything in its path.“As our economy bleeds out, what does (the Chancellor) do? She comes to this house with nothing to say and with no plan, unless of course doing nothing is a cunning plan to avoid those u-turns further down the line.”Sir Mel added: “She is weak. She has even stripped the OBR of its ability to assess whether she is meeting her fiscal targets. So, let it be remembered that at this time in this chamber, this weak and chaotic government gave up on the British people.“She has nothing to say to us today. This is not a spring statement, it is a surrender statement.”
