I have a small business background, and I know that the Budget today is extremely worrying.
It’s clear that those on the Labour front bench haven’t the business experience to understand what they’ve just done.
Although there has been some investment into the NHS and Education, new vital infrastructure projects, such as Watford General Hospital, seem to have been put on the backburner, with no news on maintaining funding commitments. SEND provision has also not been given the care it needs, with new funding only a drop in the ocean.
I remain as alarmed as I was in the Chamber during the Budget about the lack of certainty given to the Watford General Hospital redevelopment, the ill-thought through and ideologically driven plans to introduce VAT on Private Schools, and the punitive taxes on small businesses and anyone with ambition in our great country.