Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
was among those who “covered up” the huge black hole in the Treasury’s coffers before the general election, a spokesperson forhas repeatedly accused the Conservatives of leaving £22bn-worth of unfunded spending commitments when they lost the election on July 4.
Critics have accused Labour of hiding the true extent of the tax rises they were planning in the party’s election manifesto.But the PM’s spokesperson said: “We stand by our commitments in the manifesto, which was fully funded. “Then, of course, one of the first things the chancellor did when we came in was do an audit of the books and found a £22 billion black hole that the previous government lied about and covered up.
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