The Green Party plans to accuse Shabana Mahmood of “fiscal constraint and economic orthodoxy” as well as highlighting her controversial immigration reforms should she be appointed as Andy Burnham’s chancellor, the New Statesman can reveal. A source told the NS that the party has begun to scale up its general election preparation in light of news of Mahmood’s potential appointment.
According to an internal memo seen by the New Statesman, the Greens intend to make the case to left-wing voters that Mahmood’s economic ideas are the “polar opposite of what’s needed to balance wealth and power in this country”. The party also plans to highlight previous comments by the Home Secretary including citing Margaret Thatcher as her political heroine, and will accuse her of using the phrase “tough choices” as a code for spending cuts while she was a shadow treasury minister between October 2013 and May 2015.
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