Gary Neville: Government’s ‘shock’ mini-budget didn’t ‘read the room’

The government’s economic policies announced last week were a “shock,” former footballer Gary Neville has said.

Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget offered tax cuts to millionaires and lifted the cap on bankers’ bonuses.

“It didn’t feel like it was reading the room in this country, when people are desperately worrying over the winter about how they are going to heat their homes,” Mr Neville said at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday, 26 September.

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