Chancellor says she can be trusted with the UK's finances despite claims she misled the public

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has rejected claims she misled the public about the nation's finances in the run-up to her Budget.

Reeves was challenged on the BBC to explain why she had repeatedly warned about a downgrade to the UK's economic productivity forecasts - including in a speech on 4 November - ahead of Wednesday's Budget.

It has since emerged the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) told her in mid-September the public finances were in better shape than widely thought, with Reeves omitting to mention a forecast of higher wages.

Reeves said the OBR figures were clear there had been "less fiscal space than there was" and that she had been "upfront" about her decision-making. But Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch repeated her call for the chancellor to quit.

When pressed on the issue on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Reeves said she did not "accept" she had been misleading.