Millions of public sector workers will have been left bitterly disappointed by the Chancellor – John McDonnell

Today, Labour’s Shadow Treasury
Team challenged the failing economic record of this anarchic Cabinet at the
final Treasury Questions of the parliamentary session.

The Chancellor and his team’s
performance proves beyond a doubt that he has no answer on low pay, no answer
on tackling tax avoidance and no answer on the disastrous impact that leaving
the EU without a transitional arrangement will have on British jobs.

It is clear Labour is ready as a
government-in-waiting – ready to replace a chaotic and bitterly divided
Conservative Party.

John McDonnell MP, Labour’s Shadow
Chancellor, speaking
after Treasury Questions, said:

“A multi-millionaire Chancellor,
on £145,000 a year, living in two grace and favour properties at taxpayers’
expense, and renting out another property for a reported £10,000 per month,
should not attack public sector workers – our hospital cleaners, nurses,
teachers and firefighters – as overpaid.

“Today, the out of touch
Chancellor has once again refused to take the opportunity to apologise to our
public sector workers. Millions of public sector workers will have been left
bitterly disappointed by the Chancellor’s failure to commit to doing the right
thing and adopt Labour’s proposals to lift the public sector pay cap.”