Labour MP: 'This is a fantasy pre-Brexit Budget'published at 21:11 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2018
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Labour MP Anna McMorrin says "this was a fantasy Budget today which lets our communities down, our country down and our people down."
"Thousands of cash strapped families up and down the country know that austerity is still alive and strong," she says.
Embedded in the Universal Credit system are "deliberate and unfair cuts".
Ms McMorrin says the referendum result was "a protest against austerity and the poverty we see up and down the country", and calls for a so-called 'People's Vote' - another referendum of EU membership.
"There will be no Brexit deal dividend, just chaos," she says.
Anna McMorrin says "if the future government wants to protect future generations, green energy plans should have been at the forefront of this Budget", but, she says "the government keeps coming up short in this area again and again."
"Brexit has swallowed up the Tories ability to plan for the future," she says.