Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves was the subject of a brutal attack from one salon owner live on GB News.
Rachel Reeves was savaged on GB News (Image: Getty)
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves was targeted in a savage row live on GB News, as it emerged MPs from the party have been banned from various hair salons around the country. Salon owner Collette Osbourne appeared on the programme via video link, chatting to Martin Daubney about the recent U-turn for pubs.
Daubney began the interview by saying: “Collette, last time I spoke with you was New Year’s Eve, you said you weren’t even going out because you were so concerned about getting people to get to work the next day. You took the step of banning Labour Party MPs from your two salons, one in Beeston and the other in Gedling.
“Two Labour MPs have been barred from your premises already. Collette, you’ve seen that the government has done a spectacular U-turn on pubs – are you hoping now as a hairdresser owner, for a slice of the action?”
Osbourne responded: “I think it’s criminal if they don’t actually include all of the high street businesses. You can’t have one rule for one and one rule for another, that is just unfair. Anna Turley said it’s not a U-turn, it’s because they’re listening – well, start listening to all high street businesses.
A salon owner has banned Labour MPs from her properties (Image: GB News)
“You can’t disregard us again. I’m gonna take you back to Covid – in Covid, did you know that we were actually removed from the hospitality sector two weeks before they gave a VAT cut to hospitality? Hairdressers, salons, barbers and beauty [salons] were actually disregarded then.
“We’ve been excluded from industrial strategy because we don’t matter. I’m starting to think that the female Chancellor has something against the largest female-dominated industry.”
She fumed: “Your reporter said that it was going to cost £300million for this ‘listening’, not U-turn, for the pubs… well if they actually listened to us, we could have actually put £2.4billion back in the treasury’s coffers. This is a reactive government, not a proactive government.
