Residents of deprived County Durham town, where support has swung from Labour to Reform, say chancellor’s policies won’t solve their problems
“There’s bits and pieces of this and that but I don’t see any coherent drive for growth,” said an underwhelmed Labour stalwart, David Taylor-Gooby, about Rachel Reeves’s budget.
“They need more backbone. They need to have a sense of moral purpose. They need to sort the economy out.”