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Sticking with Labour for now, let's take you to a last-minute news conference that the party arranged in London this afternoon. Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams has accused Labour of "underhanded scheming" after reports that Diane Abbott would not be able to stand for the Labour Party.
Shadow Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones, leading it, highlighted the costs associated with policies set out by PM Rishi Sunak during the election campaign. As we've reported, Keir Starmer has said that no decision had been taken to bar Abbott but earlier, the Labour MP told the BBC she had been barred from standing for the party.
He claimed the Tories had so far promised "£71bn of unfunded spending commitments" and warned that could result in a 2.5% point hike to interest rates. Williams accuses the Labour Party of having "always tried to control and cancel principled
He also warned that the Tories "had not learned the lessons" from former PM Liz Truss's short stint in power, which resulted in a period of political and economic turbulence, forcing her to ditch tax cuts that sent financial markets into a tailspin. candidates", referring to when Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney MP Gerald Jones beat Beth Winter to be the candidate in the new constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon last June.
The Tories will send the economy "sliding back into recession," he told reporters, and ordinary people will see their mortgage bills rising again: "Liz Truss's kamikaze budget is now being followed by Rishi Sunak's kamikaze manifesto." "Labour’s underhanded scheming against their own members for this
The Conservatives are yet to respond. election is worse than anything I have seen in my 23 years in frontline
politics," Williams says, adding that he "greatly admired" Abbott for "standing up for what is right".
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