Dame Louise Casey tore aside Rishi Sunak in a brutal takedown through which she accused the PM of “selling nonsense”.
The former authorities adviser stated the Prime Minister was pushing out “dangerous” spin and was claiming issues have been truth after they weren’t. Baroness Casey stated she felt “sad” after watching the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg interview Mr Sunak as he failed to understand the state the nation is in.
“We’re in just the most extraordinary place in our country. I’ve just done this series called Fixing Britain on Radio Four, and we need to fix Britain,” she stated. “I didn’t take from that [interview] any sense that there’s an acceptance that things are as bad for people as they are. Things are really bad for an awful lot of people out there.”
During the interview, the PM stated tax cuts funded by chopping advantages can be about creating “fairness”, as he stated Britain’s welfare system “is not working”. He additionally stated he had full confidence within the Rwanda scheme regardless of a leaked report this weekend suggesting that he was not satisfied of the plan’s effectiveness whereas serving as Chancellor beneath ex-PM Boris Johnson.
Baroness Casey stated: “Spin is such a dangerous thing. To say: those are the facts when they’re not the facts. They’re really not the facts you know, from the boats, which is just a headline rather than… an immigration policy to the latest let’s crack down on welfare. Well, they always crack down on welfare. If they were going to crack down on welfare, why haven’t they done it by now?”
She added that Mr Sunak was “probably quite a decent bloke” however was on this “invidious position” when working right into a basic election. She added: “He is selling nonsense. I mean, it just rang hollow. One thing after the other. And I can’t help – I can hear it in my tone – feel a cross between angry and upset.”
Mr Sunak additionally stated in his interview that the Government had reached a pay decision with each different a part of the NHS, aside from junior docs. But unions criticised stated he’s “incorrect” for claiming he has settled pay disputes with nurses, consultants and speciality docs. Junior docs in England are in the course of a six-day strike, which is the longest walkout within the historical past of the well being service.
Speaking about junior docs, Baroness Casey added: “People need to know that people who have trained for seven years and hold our lives in the hands – these aren’t trainees, these aren’t medical students – we’re paying them £15 an hour. I mean, it all rings hollow and what I wanted was some acceptance, that actually Britain is pretty – we’re pretty low, actually.”
She went on: “And a lot of people in Britain will not feel these tax cuts. And the idea that all of these people have benefit scroungers when most of them are working – the vast majority of people on benefit are working. So, yeah, I’m not the happiest person to start the programme.”