Mims Davies MP reacts to Spring Statement 2025

Following speaking on GB News on the Labour Government’s Spring Statement 2025, Mims Davies MP said:

“The Labour Government's reckless Spring Statement following on from their dire Autumn Budget is now impacting the most vulnerable in our society from pensioners to disabled people and brings absolutely no comfort to businesses across East Grinstead, Uckfield, and the villages.

It is working families and businesses, large and small, who will pay the price again for Labour's ideological policies, from bigger costs, the NI hike, higher mortgage rates for longer as larger council tax bills and business rate bills land alongside simply spending more on debt interest as growth this year is halved.

These Labour choices to tax wealth creation, choking off growth while hammering businesses into the ground will prove a colossal further mistake. Particularly concerning too is that the statement takes no account of the impact of the disastrous Employment Rights Bill leaving UK PLC floundering once again.

Together with the recent Mid Sussex Lib Dem led council hike to parking costs and hours affecting our high street in East Grinstead, there is deep anger and concern that the Chancellor is out of her depth.

I hear huge despondency from my local businesses, across sectors, who are battling to stay afloat and keep people employed in our community - particularly our farmers who are at the end of their tether and distraught their pleas for help are again left unheard.”

Video found here:

https://www.mimsdavies.org.uk/news/mims-davies-mp-reacts-labours-spring-statement-2025