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Who is in charge for the horrible state of the British economic system? Most affordable individuals would possibly level the finger at Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves and her automotive crash Budget, or to earlier Tory governments who did a lot hurt over 14 years.

But no. According to Labour prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, talking on Monday, the true blame for our financial catastrophe lies with the 17.4m British individuals who dared to vote for Brexit within the 2016 EU referendum. Few will probably be fooled by Starmer’s clear try and shift the highlight away from his chancellor and her disastrous Budget.

We can all see that Reeves imposing one other £26bn in taxes, whereas spending one other £9bn on welfare, is one more assault on alarm clock Britain that retains this nation operating.

Worse, we now know that her Budget was based mostly on fastened figures. As chief of Reform UK, I’ve written to ask the parliamentary ethics watchdog to analyze how Reeves misled the British public.

My deputy Richard Tice MP has written to the prime minister to ask if she broke the ministerial code.

Yet within the delusional world of Labour, none of this issues. Instead at his Monday press convention, Starmer demanded that we “all now confront the reality”.

Not the fact of the UK’s self-inflicted financial mess, however his fantasy model that claims Brexit “significantly hurt our economy,” in order that the UK now must “keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU” underneath Labour.

The PM and his pals in massive enterprise all the time despised Brexit and the tens of millions who voted for it. They now need to take us again as near single market membership as they will.

They should not economically literate sufficient to see the benefits of a properly-implemented Brexit.

Most small companies voted Brexit as a result of they needed to chop crimson tape. Instead, with EU guidelines nonetheless in place, the state of affairs has received worse.

Much of the blame for this comes all the way down to the Tories. From Boris so-called “oven ready” cope with the EU onwards, Conservative governments betrayed the true potential of Brexit.

Through 14 years of Tory rule, they put up your taxes, elevated power payments and tripled the nationwide debt, whereas doing nothing to say our independence. They by no means need to be forgiven.

Only Reform UK might be trusted to repair damaged Britain. We will reduce public spending, slash crimson tape, take away EU guidelines and be on the facet of the small companies and dealing individuals who make up alarm clock Britain.

We may even lastly make good on the promise on Brexit, by taking again management of Britain’s borders, legal guidelines and cash. And we are going to by no means attempt to blame British voters for the issues created by the institution’s personal failures.