THE Conservatives have failed in government on a scale that is ‘incomparable”, according to Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Darren Jones told GB News: “The Conservatives failure over the last 13 years is that on a scale, I think it’s incomparable based on previous elections.

“My job in the Treasury with Rachel Reeves is made all the more difficult because of the mess that we’d be inheriting from the Conservatives in government, higher debt than ever before, high interest rates, public services on their knees, and a cost of living crisis that’s affecting everybody across the country.

“We make no slight of the fact that that’s going to be a really hard thing to do in terms of turning around the country. But we know that Conservatives can’t clear up their own mess.

“We will be willing to do that but then also to put in place our plans to bring forward a decade of national renewal in this country.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, he continued: “We here in Westminster, we always love the who’s up, who’s down, who’s back stories, but what really matters is whether the Conservative Party, its performance, is going to improve.

“For people at home, they will know that the economy is heading in the wrong direction, that the cost of living is an ongoing problem for them, that the Tories crashed the economy last year resulting in higher mortgage payments, that our public services are in crisis, and I’m not sure they really mind who’s around the Cabinet table.

“They just want a Conservative Party that will hopefully get a grip of the country again, which unfortunately based on the past 13 years, I don’t suspect they will.”

He added: “We’re not taking any of the poll leads with any sense of complacency. We know that we have a huge amount of work to do in a very high number of constituencies across the country in every corner of the country to persuade people to vote for us at the next election.

“We’re going to work really hard to try to win the trust of the British people when that election comes, but the inheritance that we would have if we were to win the next election is pretty daunting.