Liz Jarvis responds to the Chancellor's Spring Statement

Across Eastleigh, people are struggling with eye-watering bills, businesses are buckling under pressure and our public services are crumbling. 

This Spring Statement was a real opportunity for this government to turn things round for the better, but instead it will just inflict more pain on our small businesses and high streets, cut public services and hit disabled people and their families.

There is no doubt the Conservatives left our economy in tatters, but the Chancellor has missed her chance to deliver the change and growth we need here in Eastleigh.

The Liberal Democrats and I will campaign for the Government to urgently change course and look to boost growth in much fairer and effective ways, raising money from the banking, tech and gambling giants, not the businesses in our high streets and the farmers in our community.