GMB: Gary Neville and Edwina Currie clash over employment

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On Wednesday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the 2021 Budget, which included plans for a new Beatles attraction for Liverpool worth up to £2million. The former Manchester United defender and Sky Sports pundit, who has been outspoken in attacking the Tories in the past, blasted the planned waterfront fixture.

Responding to Mr Sunak’s budget, Mr Neville skewered the Government and rubbished claims it was “levelling up”.

“This government are trying to buy more favour in the North of England through announcing spot investments into small projects.

“This isn’t levelling up, it’s PR finance designed by manipulative individuals.”

He also shared a post from Kelly Cates, from Sky Football, comparing the Beatles museum to “giving an HMV voucher instead of the cash”.

Mr Sunak pledged the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority will receive up to £2m in his 2021 Budget to build a new Beatles-themed attraction on the city’s waterfront.

The Chancellor’s money will allow the Merseyside authority to develop a business case for the attraction, which has been in its planning stages since 2017.

Mr Sunak said in the House of Commons: “Thanks to the Culture Secretary [Nadine Dorries], over 800 regional museums and libraries will be renovated, restored, and revived.

“And she’s secured up to £2million to start work on a new Beatles attraction on the Liverpool waterfront.”

The planned attraction, set to be completed by 2024, would join the likes of The Beatles Story, the Cavern Club and the Liverpool Beatles Museum.

However, Liam Thorpe, the Liverpool Echo’s political editor, said the announcement “has left many in the city questioning if what Liverpool really needs right now is another Beatles attraction, with families battling poverty and the cash-strapped city council struggling to make more savings”.

Former Wirral Councillor Adam Sykes also tweeted: “Liverpool is not short of Beatles-themed attractions – the city is far more than a band that broke up in 1970.”

At the start of October, Mr Neville appeared on Good Morning Britain and tore into the Government’s decision to cut the £20 uplift to Universal Credit.

He said after former Tory health minister Edwina Currie defended the cut: “Well, let me just translate what Edwina just said: ‘I’m OK here, we’re OK here,’ which is the first thing a Conservative person does.

“They look after themselves. The language is always divisive, it’s not helpful.

“It’s really dangerous to remove universal credit payments at this moment in time. It’s brutal.”

Speaking to Alastair Campbell on the ITV programme, he also compared Boris Johnson to a “spaghetti Bolognese of a man”.

He said: “Boris Johnson isn’t good enough to be the Prime Minister of this country.

“He is a bit of a spaghetti Bolognese of a man. He looks scruffy, each of his sentences and speeches are almost like a strand of spaghetti – you have no idea where it starts, and you certainly have no idea where they end.

“And yet he is popular. If you look at a menu, and you have a waiter or a waitress over your shoulder asking you to make a choice and you have to make a panicky decision, you end up going for your spaghetti Bolognese.

“We need a better alternative to the spaghetti Bolognese.”

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