Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner poured scorn yesterday on Chancellor George Osborne’s bogus claim that Tory economic policies are working.
“Do not believe this man. He wouldn’t recognise the truth if it was sprayed on his eyeballs,” Mr Skinner declared angrily.
The TUC Congress in Bournemouth also scathingly rejected the economic policies of the coalition government, declaring that they had failed even by their own measures.
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