Graham has asked the Prime Minister about his first year in office in the last Prime Minister Question Time before the summer recess.
Graham asked the Prime Minister, “Can I congratulate the Prime Minister on his first year in office and acknowledge that the Labour manifesto was beautifully written, deeply moving and, like that other great blockbuster tale of hope and redemption, the Salt Path, a total pack of lies.
“With joblessness, inflation and debt all ballooning, his ratings collapsing and his backbenchers on work to rule, could the Prime Minister recommend a summer recess read, in order to take all our minds away from the calamitous journey on which he and the chancellor have embarked?”
Graham chose to reference the fact that Labour is failing the working people of Beverley and Holderness, with the country experiencing negative growth in the past two months, the highest inflation in the G7 at 3.6%. Unemployment has increased every month of the last year, leaving the UK with 300,000 fewer jobs.
The Prime Minister, embattled with the news that he has a net favourability of -44%, responded, “We are very proud of our manifesto, it was a very successful manifesto and we’re very proud to be implementing it.”
Since being re-elected last year, Graham has given 397 contributions in the House of Commons being a strong voice for the people of Beverley and Holderness on the Winter Fuel cut, in support of parents on home schooling and SEND funding, the Family Farm Tax, York to Hull Rail, Welfare Reform, Tax and much more besides. He is regarded as a frequent and insightful contributor in the Commons.
Graham said: “Labour was elected on a manifesto of falsehoods and those chickens are coming home to roost as the Prime Minister faces tanking approval ratings.
“People voted Labour because they believed they offered hope and were reassured that this Labour party would prioritise growth.
“Instead we’ve got a Prime Minister intent on selling out the UK, a Chancellor crashing the economy, an Attorney General who proudly puts international law ahead of the UK, a welfare secretary who’s cancelled welfare reform and a defence secretary who’s being forced to fund rural broadband as part of defence spending.
“We deserve better.”
