In a powerful speech in the House of Commons, Graham slammed the Budget of Broken Promises which will cause great hardship for working people, for older people and for farmers in Beverley and Holderness.
The campaigning MP is well known as a fervent critic of the government’s repeated broken promises and used his speech to forensically demolish the Chancellor’s Halloween horror Budget.
The theme of Graham’s speech was the disappointment felt by people across the country who voted for the Labour Party on the basis that it promised to protect working people, to protect pensioner benefits and, perhaps most egregiously, Sir Keir Starmer told farmers to their faces only last year that he would protect the family farm.
Those promises are now in tatters.
Labour has hit ordinary people by imposing a £500 charge on working people who use the bus by increasing the bus fare cap, introduced by the Conservatives, by 50%.
Graham’s petition (www.grahamstuart.com/FairFares) against the bus fare hikes has already seen around 700 people sign his petition to reverse the bus fare hike.
The MP has long been a strong supporter for the dignity of older people in retirement, and only yesterday was joined by fellow East Riding MPs Sir David Davis and Charlie Dewhirst to present the No to the Winter Fuel Cut petition of over 1,100 residents to 10 Downing Street.
The government’s decision to target pensioners with their cut to the £300 Winter Fuel Payment for almost all pensioners has been received badly in the country, perhaps unsurprisingly since Labour pledged to protect all pensioner benefits in its manifesto.
East Yorkshire is a highly agricultural county, with over 90% of its land taken up by agriculture. The Prime Minister promised to protect farmers in a speech to the NFU in February 2023, going so far as to say, “losing a farm is not like losing any other business – it can’t come back.”.
He has now done more than any Prime Minister to destroy the family farm with changes to Agricultural Property Relief on Inheritance Tax set to impose a 20% tax bill on 75% of the country’s farmed area, according to the NFU.
Graham savaged the government’s decision to impose this new tax on farmers. He is working with the local NFU to find ways to support farmers.
Graham has always worked hard for his constituents and has pledged to continue to fight the choices this government have made to attack working people, farmers and older people.
Graham Stuart MP said, “The Budget of Broken Promises lifts the curtain on the government’s intentions in office, and it’s now clear that it has engaged in a national gaslighting exercise.
“Working people – poorer. Old people – dying. Farms – devastated.
“That’s the impact of this Government of Broken Promises. I’ll do all I can for the people of Beverley and Holderness to make the case for the government to overturn the choices it has made.”
