Back to Gary Neville, the left-wing right-back who has never met a camera he didn’t like. Just when we thought he’d disappeared from our screens for good, the lefty ex-footballer has reared his head again to take a pop at, er, Labour. That’s a turnaround for the books!
Speaking to Sky News this morning, the card-carrying Labour member decided to opine on some of the Treasury’s decision-making of late. First caveating that he is very much in favour the government’s choice to up the minimum wage – ‘I honestly believe that people, to be fair, should be paid more’, the millionaire pundit confessed – Neville turned his guns on Sir Keir Starmer:
I did think that once there was a change of government and once there was some stability, that we would get something settling. But it’s not settling locally in our country…
I do think that the National Insurance rise, though, was a challenge accepting that we need to raise money for services. We all talk about the requirement of great transport, great education, great health service, great police and emergency services. We all want these things in our lives. We want these things in our country, and the money’s got to come from somewhere. But I honestly don’t believe that companies and small businesses should be deterred from employing people. So I think the National Insurance rise was one that I feel probably could have been held back, particularly in terms of the way in which the economy was.
Oh dear. The ex-Man Utd defender tends to be more comfortable attacking the Tories. You know things are going badly for Starmer when even Neville is wading in…
Watch the clip here:
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