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Reeves and Hunt's claims about shortfalls checked (www.bbc.com)

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"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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[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Hunt needs to sit down and shut up.

Not only did they mislead the OBR, presumably on purpose so they could start attacking Labour right out of the gate. But the Chancellor is having to play catch up of years of the Tories under paying NHS staff in their attempt to dismantle it and drive money and workforce into private healthcare

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

"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, external 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.

According to the article..... the figures come from the Treasury, the OBR didn't mention anything when they audited the figures so gave them the a-ok, and new data has come to light since.

So, for me, the interesting thing is:

If true, why is Reeves going on the attack against Hunt since she had exactly the same figures as he did and this is easily proved. She also had opportunity to question the figures prior to the election but didn't, apparently.
If true, did the Treasury Civil Servants tell fibs to the OBR? Why would they do that?
New data will come to light all the time in a large organisation, the UK government being no exception. So why not just say that new information has come to light rather than going all in on "he lied to the nation" line?

My broader point is that rather than demanding people "sit down and shut up" we should wait for the OBR investigation into this because at the moment nobody has the full facts it seems.

[–] ReCursing 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 0 points 10 months ago

OK 👌

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