Victoria Atkins said working-age people had benefited from a £900 tax cut from the government and criticised Labour's silence over the issue of whether they'll target pensions pots or not
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins has rejected claims that the Government has given up on young people and is instead focusing on the grey wall.
Speaking to Camilla Tominey on GBNews, Ms Atkins said working-age people had benefited from a £900 tax cut from the government and criticised Labour's silence over the issue of whether they'll target pensions pots or not.
Ms Atkins also claimed Keir Starmer had been "late to the party" in coming up with ideas to tackle illegal immigration.
She told GBNews: “We’ve absolutely not given up on young people. If you look at our plans, not just for the National Citizen Service, which I have to say I think is a great idea, I think that's a real range of opportunities for our younger people.
It's about ensuring that they have the skills and qualities for later in life. But also, of course, we've given a tax break this year of 900 pounds to people of working age through the national insurance tax code.
"And what is more, we have said that we want to ensure that pensions, those workplace pensions that we've done so much to encourage people to invest in, will be maintained.
"What worries me is that Labour is absolutely silent on whether or not they're going to raid those pension pots, we have made it clear we will not but Labour has not. “And it is these incremental policies or silences from Labour that is, I think, building a very different picture from the one that perhaps they like to come on the camera and talk about.”
On Keir Starmer's vows to tackle migration she added: “He's very late to the issue. He has consistently voted against every single measure that we have brought before the House to tackle illegal migration.
"That's not that's not an oversight on his part. That's a determined policy, not to tackle illegal migration, “In this general election campaign, we are going into the campaign with this raft of measures to tackle both legal and illegal immigration. The Prime Minister has put a lot of effort and political capital into attacking illegal immigration in particular.
"And if you'd said to me 18 months ago that we would have cut small boat crossings by a third, I would have been happily surprised, but we have.”
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