{"id":144903,"date":"2025-05-20T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/?post_type=parliament&#038;p=144903"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:23:44","slug":"the-conservative-party-is-becoming-completely-irrelevant-says-rachel-reeves","status":"publish","type":"parliament","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/parliament\/the-conservative-party-is-becoming-completely-irrelevant-says-rachel-reeves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Party is &#8216;becoming completely irrelevant&#8217;, says Rachel Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/player.target-video.com\/player\/build\/targetvideo.min.js\"><\/script> <div id=\"TargetVideo_47740124\" style=\"width:16;height:9;\" > <\/div> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> $bp(\"TargetVideo_47740124\", {\"video\":\"2126533\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"id\":\"24436\"}); <\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel Reeves has dismissed the Conservative Party as &#8220;becoming completely irrelevant&#8221;, in response to a question posed by shadow chancellor Mel Stride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stride asked the chancellor for &#8220;precisely which business confidence survey&#8221; she could cite to support her claim that the economy &#8220;has turned a corner&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reeves responded: &#8220;Well, the PwC [PricewaterhouseCoopers] survey of global CEOs says that Britain is the second best place in the world to invest &#8211; that&#8217;s just one of the surveys that backs what this government is doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But the shadow chancellor just simply isn&#8217;t serious and his party is becoming completely irrelevant. Now he talks about jobs &#8211; 200,000 jobs have been created since the general election.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added: &#8220;We have secured three trade agreements which are backed by British businesses and British trade unions, and every single one of them, the party opposite opposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No wonder even George Osborne says the shadow chancellor has no credible economic plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Politics.co.uk is the UK\u2019s leading digital-only political website. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/subscribe\/\"><i>Subscribe to our daily newsletter<\/i><\/a><i> for all the latest news and analysis.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Reeves has dismissed the Conservative Party as &#8220;becoming completely irrelevant&#8221;, in response to a question posed by shadow chancellor Mel Stride. 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