Badenoch challenged Starmer at PMQs on the resignation of OBR chairman Richard Hughes:
“We know that there were endless Treasury briefings to justify raising taxes on hardworking people to pay for benefits and those briefings had real world consequences. Hundreds of thousands of people drew down their pension, an irreversible act… If the head of the OBR had to resign over market sensitive leaks, why is the Chancellor still in her job?”
Starmer hit back by repeating the false claim that there was a black hole and added:
“The OBR said yesterday, Mr. Speaker, that the Chancellor’s speech was not misleading. So if the leader of the opposition had any decency, she’d get up now and apologise.”
The OBR also said Treasury briefings were wrong, that it had asked the Treasury to stop briefing, and that there was no black hole…
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