Chris Leslie MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to the OECD’s report on the UK economy, said:

“The OECD is right to highlight the challenge of increasing productivity in order to sustainably raise living standards and so get the deficit down.

“This is what Labour’s Better Plan for Britain’s Prosperity, which we published this month, is all about. Our plan includes cutting business rates for small firms, reforming the banking sector, investing in training and apprenticeships and keeping Britain in a reformed EU.

“Government standing back and hoping wealth will trickle-down from the top to everyone else simply won’t work. We need a recovery that reaches kitchen tables across Britain, not one which has left working people £1600 a year worse off since 2010.”

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