Labour's Lisa Nandy criticises the "great big gaping hole" in the Budget 2020 | LBC

Labour leader hopeful Lisa Nandy slammed the Conservatives' 2020 Budget and exposed its "great big gaping hole."

Labour leader hopeful and MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy said there were "a lot of problems in this Budget."

"We were promised £600 billion in investment for the Red Wall communities - by my reckoning this doesn't even add up to £100 billion," Ms Nandy said, and added that while good measures have been introduced on business rates and broadband, "it's nothing like the scale of investment that's been promised."

She said that the reason there was a lack of detail about what the government will spend money on is because they "simply don't know what sort of economic state the country is going to be in in a few months' time."

"By my reckoning, the amount of money that is being pledged adds up to about £63 billion rather than £600 billion so that's pretty short," Ms Nandy said.

The Chancellor's Budget had a "great big gaping hole" which was social care, she continued, and pointed out that Wigan, her own constituency, is one of many older communities in which people are more vulnerable to coronavirus.

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