Tag: Rachel Reeves

The comments made by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on 21 April 2021.

Given the shocking revelations this morning and a serious lack of transparency for months, we welcome the Prime Minister’s commitment to publish his text messages with business leaders in Prime Minister’s Questions today.

Since we also have no Independent Advisor on Ministerial Standards in place, and no Register of Ministers’ Financial Interests published for nine months, these texts must immediately be made public.

The comments made by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on 21 April 2021.

NHS nurses worked on our frontlines to protect us – but it’s a chum of the Prime Minister who has his phone number that gets offered a tax break, while they got a pay cut.

Revelations today seem to confirm a growing feeling that if one has access to a telephone number of someone like the Prime Minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer, then they are able to gain special treatment, potentially even significant financial ones.

We need the Prime Minister to appear before the Liaison Committee immediately, and for a thorough investigation into his conduct on this matter.

Boris Johnson should also stick to the commitment he made this week in Prime Minister Questions and publish his text messages with other business leaders immediately.

The comments made by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on 20 April 2021.

It says everything about the rampant Tory sleaze consuming this government that such a huge conflict of interest was revealed by mistake.

The Government keeps saying that it wants to be transparent on deals – but the redactions on this contract show this was a deliberate cover up. They’ve been caught red handed.

It’s clear it’s one rule for the Conservative Party and their friends and donors, and another for everyone else.

The comments made by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on 14 April 2021.

Boris Johnson’s MPs have voted to cover up cronyism.

It’s the return of Tory sleaze: one rule for them, another for everybody else.

Labour will keep standing up for the British people so we can end this culture of Conservative cronyism.

The comments made by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on 12 April 2021.

This has all the hallmarks of another cover-up by the Conservatives.

Just as with the inquiry into Priti Patel’s alleged bullying, this is another Conservative Government attempt to push bad behaviour into the long grass and hope the British public forgets. The Conservatives can’t be trusted to yet again mark their own homework.

We need answers on Greensill now – that means key players in this cronyism scandal like David Cameron, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock appearing openly in front of Parliament as soon as possible to answer questions.

The comments made by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on 3 April 2021.

The allegation that billions of pounds of taxpayer and NHS cash was put at the mercy of Lex Greensill without so much as a contract signed is shocking, and Conservative cronyism down to a tee.

We need Cameron to come out of hiding and apologise, but we also need answers.

The Conservatives must make it clear how – after 10-years of weakening the bodies meant to investigate cronyism and corruption – they are going to tackle this growing problem.

With thousands of British jobs on the line after the collapse of Greensill, they must stop ignoring scandals piling up on their watch and take action to clean up the waste and cronyism becoming their hallmark.