Lib Dems say Chancellor’s Spring Statement was a missed opportunity to deliver the promised change

Daisy Cooper MP, Lib Dem Deputy Leader & Treasury Spokesperson said: Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement was a missed opportunity to deliver the change our communities were promised.

For years, the Conservatives wrecked the public finances, putting our small businesses under immense pressure, and bringing our public services to their knees.

People voted for change in July, but so far Labour are delivering more of the same.

As Chancellor, Rachel Reeves had a chance to put things right, to change course and deliver a plan that delivers for the British people.

Instead she chose to inflict more pain on our small businesses and high streets, as well as cut public services and hit welfare for disabled people.

The Liberal Democrats have been clear: we need a real plan to fix our finances, support businesses, and boost economic growth.

That means scrapping the national insurance jobs tax, which is hammering small businesses and care providers - instead asking the big banks, social media giants, and online gambling companies to pay their fair share.

It means rebuilding our trading relationship with Europe to cut red tape for British businesses and drive growth.

And it means fixing our broken health and social care system - because cutting support for the most vulnerable won’t help them into work, in fact it could make things worse.

This Government is making the wrong choices.

Millions are struggling to see a GP or dentist, and social care services are on the verge of collapse. Meanwhile, high streets face an epidemic of boarded-up shopfronts as small businesses struggle under rising costs and unfair taxes.

Liberal Democrats are fighting for a fairer way forward.

We will keep pushing for proper investment in public services, support for small businesses, and an economy that works for everyone.

The British people were promised change. It’s time the Government delivered it.