Peter Cripps voted for Labour at the last general election because he was desperate to get rid of the Conservatives. But he wouldn’t vote for the party again, not least after the chancellor’s make-or-break Budget on Wednesday.
As he sat outside his shop, Car, Home and Garden in Sheerness on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey, the 76-year-old told The Independent: “I’ve lived on the isle for 50 years, this is the worst I’ve ever known it, and this Budget is not going to turn that around.”
