“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

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    22 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

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      32 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?”