The Labour-supporting millionaire boss of the Iceland food chain has launched a scathing attack on its ‘doom-laden’ economic prophesies for Britain.
Richard Walker switched his backing from the Tories earlier this year saying Sir Keir Starmer’s party was ‘the right choice’ for his customers.
And he happily posed with both Sir Keir and Chancellor Rachel Reeves outside his stores during the election campaign.
But he today warned against introducing a swathe of business tax increases in the Budget next month, warning UK PLC is ‘not a lemon that can keep being squeezed without any adverse impact on employment or consumers’.
Both Sir Keir and Ms Reeves have made repeated speeches and remarks about the poor state of the nation’s economy, with critics suggesting they are fattening the public up to accept tax rises.
But writing in the Sun on Sunday Mr Walker warned that ‘the doom-laden warnings … set a rather different tone from Labour‘s pre-election pledges to be unashamedly pro-business and pro-growth’.