Labour Launches Attack Ads Ridiculing Rishi Sunak’s Signed Tweets Amid Job Fears

Labour is launching a series of attack ads that link chancellor Rishi Sunak’s personally signed tweets with the prospect of rising unemployment.

Titled “It’s Got His Name All Over It”, the Facebook campaign will from Wednesday target Tory seats which the Opposition claims are set to lose jobs because of a lack of targeted support from the government.

The party says that key sectors such as aviation, tourism and hospitality are at most risk from Sunak’s refusal to offer specific alternatives to his furlough scheme that is due to end next month.

The chancellor’s recent “Winter Economic Plan” set out new moves to subsidise the pay of workers who move to part-time hours, but critics have claimed that they fail to offer employers sufficient incentives to keep staff on.

Sunak began his signature tweets earlier this year, adding his autograph to various PR campaigns to highlight his jobs support plans, stamp duty and VAT cuts, and his “Eat Out To Help Out” discounts for restaurants in August.

But Labour estimates that more than half a million jobs are at risk in parliamentary seats that switched to the Tories in the general election last year.

Sunak raised eyebrows even among some Conservative backbenchers when he launched his branded social media posters in the summer, prompting suggestions that he was preparing a future leadership bid.

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