Anneliese Dodds – 2021 Comments on IMF Data Showing UK Growth

The comments made by Anneliese Dodds, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 26 January 2021.

The UK had the worst recession of any major economy when the crisis hit – and now we know it had the weakest growth of any major economy through 2020 as well. Given these awful figures, the Chancellor should be supporting families through this crisis. Instead, he’s hitting them with a triple hammer blow to their pockets of pay freezes, council tax hikes and social security cuts. This economically illiterate approach will harm our recovery and lead to long-term scarring.