The former chancellor asked Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to delay the publication of a review by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into an alleged £22billion 'black hole' in the public finances.
Jeremy Hunt today launched a last-ditch bid to prevent Britain’s economic watchdog publishing a ‘highly political’ dossier on his legacy alongside the Budget.
But the OBR’s conduct has enraged Mr Hunt, who was not contacted about the report’s content, despite being chancellor at the time. Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to use the study on Wednesday as she tries to pin the blame for huge Budget tax rises on the Conservatives The shadow chancellor said: ‘We all know why she’s inventing this fictitious black hole. Thirty times this year before the election she promised not to raise tax and tomorrow she’s planning the biggest tax-raising budget in history.’
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