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

  • ReCursing@lemmings.world
    42·
    3 months ago

    Jeremy Rhyming Slang definitely needs to sit down and shut up, regardless of this. Just in general it would be great if he never said anything ever again

    • futatorius
      3·
      3 months ago

      I find it amusing to see his highly performative outraged denials, which I believe read more like “How dare you peasants question me, don’t you know who I am?” than “You made all of those accusations up, WTF?”