DIANE ABBOTT MP points out the false premises used by Rachel Reeves in the Spring Statement
The left has the most enormous opportunity right now

TWO years almost to the day since Theresa May took office and now the storms facing her government are off the Beaufort scale.
They barrel wider and more violently than the cabinet resignations and the efforts by the Brexit wing of the Tory party to undo her Chequers deal of only last Friday.
Those are but a playing out of the political schism that erupted just over two years ago with the referendum.
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