OUR [Conservative] MP Mel Stride (Crediton Courier, June 5) quoted Keir Starmer in “rightly” describing Nigel Farage's economic policies as “fantasy economics”.

This was the same day that Mel Stride himself described the aftermath of Liz Truss's disastrous budget saying: “The credibility of the UK’s economic framework was undermined by spending billions on subsidising energy bills, and tax cuts, with no proper plan for how this would be paid for.”

But, of course, it wasn't just Liz Truss who subjected us to Tory economic incompetence.

We all had to suffer from previous Tory austerity with its allied years of stagnant growth.

Then, even as late as January last year, Richard Hughes, the Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, was scathing about Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt's Treasury.

He stated that their own forecasts had to be based on the government's “questionable assumptions”, leading to the forecasts being described as “a work of fiction”, which he then suggested was a “generous” description.

Doesn't it all rather suggest it's not just Nigel Farage's economic policies which should be described as “fantasy economics”?

Justin Beament

Down St Mary