No 10 denies Reeves 'lied about £21bn black hole' before budget
Rachel Reeves has been accused of “lying” to the public about the state of the country’s finances to justify £26 billion in tax hikes announced in her Autumn Budget...
But it has since emerged that Ms Reeves made those comments just days after receiving a letter from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) stating that the economic outlook had improved and that, rather than a deficit, she in fact had a £4.2 billion surplus.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the letter showed Ms Reeves had "lied to the public" and was “bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin”, as she called for her to be sacked.
Does it matter? This is Rachel from Accounts being criticised here. Nobody with even a modest degree of acumen is likely to pay attention to her tedious mendacity.
She emits economic numbers no moderately alert person would ever believe. She concocts facile strings of reasoning which aren't likely to convince a single MP, journalist, grounded observer or even a BBC presenter.
Nobody paying attention is surprised, shocked or even particularly interested. Rachel from Accounts is widely known to be habitually dishonest, so nobody who knows anything is listening to her within the framework of mendacity she erected. Her verbiage is reported because stories still have to be churned out, but that's it.
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