PMQs: Rachel Reeves left shaking her head as Kemi Badenoch takes aim at Labour's 'lack of growth'

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves was left shaking her head at Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch during Prime Minister's Questions, as she took aim at Labour's economy and levels of unemployment.Badenoch told MPs: "You cannot have employment rights without employment. Labour always forgets that it is not Government that creates growth, it is business that creates growth. "And businesses are closing and they are blaming him and his Chancellor. There are 100,000 fewer jobs. Hospices, charities, nurseries. They are facing bills from the jobs tax that they cannot afford. "Even the unions say workers are being thrown on the scrapheap. And all of this before his unemployment bill makes hiring even more expensive. When will he admit that Labour isn't working?"WATCH ABOVE.

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00:00I didn't hear a promise to get unemployment down and that's because he

00:03knows things are going to get worse and this goes wider than businesses. Last

00:08week I met staff and patients at Farley Hospice. They do fantastic work but they

00:14need to find an additional two hundred and fifty thousand pounds to pay the

00:20jobs tax. How does he suggest Farley Hospice, a charity which relies on

00:25donations, pays for his tax hike? Mr Speaker we have provided a hundred

00:32million pounds boosting for the sector and children young person hospitals

00:36received 26 million pounds funding this year but Mr Speaker she turns up every

00:41week to cart from the sidelines but what she doesn't do she moans she moans

00:46about what we had to do in the budget to stabilize the economy but she hasn't got

00:52the courage to stand there and say that she would reverse the next decisions

00:57that we take and I know why it's because she doesn't want to say she's

01:01against the 26 billion pound investment in our NHS she doesn't want to say she's

01:06against the 1.2 billion pound more for our police she doesn't want to say she's

01:10against the 3.2 billion pound more for our schools all the time she doesn't have

01:14the courage of our convictions it shows that our criticism is totally confected

01:19Mr Speaker I can't believe the Prime Minister is still using this figure we

01:25have this very conversation at the dispatch box he knows it is just capital

01:29spending it's either he's not paying attention or he is saying things to

01:32disguise what is going on that money will not pay for the jobs tax he knows

01:37that and the hospices know it too and the other people who know that things are

01:41getting worse are the five leading business groups in the UK they say that

01:46his so-called employment rights bill will be deeply damaging to growth does

01:51the Prime Minister accept that they are right or does he believe that he knows

01:56better than business

01:59Mr Speaker it's the same old Tories every time better rights for workers are on the table they

02:05vote against them respect and dignity and protection at work are good for

02:09workers good for the economy and good for growth

02:14Mr Speaker the Prime Minister needs to listen to business you cannot have

02:18employment rights without employment Labour always forgets that it is not

02:24government that creates growth it is business that creates growth and

02:28businesses are closing and they are blaming him and his Chancellor there are a

02:34hundred thousand fewer jobs Mr Speaker hospices charity charities nurseries they

02:39are facing bills for the jobs tax that they cannot afford even the unions say

02:44workers are being thrown on the scrap heap and all of this before his

02:47unemployment bill makes hiring even more expensive when will he admit that

02:52Labour isn't working

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