Expanded childcare and extended energy bill support expected to be announced during chancellor’s first budget
Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, has said today’s budget shows that Labour is “setting the agenda”.
In an interview with GB News, he cited action on childcare, extending the energy price guarantee and freezing fuel duty as policies in the budget that Labour was already advocating. He said:
I do think we’ve set the agenda for some of this. We called for example, for an extension of the cap on energy prices for another few months.
We called for the freeze in fuel duty to be carried over for another year and we’ve been talking about childcare for quite a long time.
If you look, first and foremost, at the green transition, this is what’s powering growth in the United States right now, with President Biden’s inflation Reduction Act, we’re just not on the pitch in the UK compared to what they’re doing in the United States right now.
