Chancellor to face Sunday morning shows where she will be grilled over whether she misled the public about the state of the economy
Rachel Reeves said she “of course” had not lied about the state of the public finances before the budget. “Of course I didn’t,” she told Trevor Phillips.
Earlier, the chancellor had told his programme:
In the context of a downgrade in our productivity, which cost £16bn, I needed to increase taxes, and I was honest and frank about that in the speech that I gave at beginning of November.
Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Reeves’s £26bn tax-raising budget had “kept to our manifesto”, but conceded that Labour had “asked everybody to contribute” in the years ahead.
