The chancellor and shadow chancellor made a series of claims the morning after Rachel Reeves blamed the Conservatives for a funding shortfall.

“Those public finances were audited by the OBR just 10 weeks before the election was called,” Mr Hunt told MPs on Monday.

But the head of the OBR wrote a letter on Tuesday saying that he had only been made aware of some of the pressures last week.

He’s so worried about it that he has set up a review to assess the information provided to the OBR by the Treasury ahead of the Budget

  • HelloThere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    Given Reeves have repeated the accusations of knowingly, and deliberately, lying on TV where she has no parliamentary privilege (that only applies within the building itself), she’s going to have receipts etched in stone.

    It’s very clear that Hunt has been found with his hand in the cookie jar, his outrage is from being caught, not because it’s fabricated.

    • mannycalavera
      6·
      3 months ago

      where she has no parliamentary privilege

      Yeah this is what’s really interesting about this whole thing. Either she’s completely vindicated or completely fucked. Big power move either way!