Pointing to sky-high spending on policies such as the Rwanda scheme, Ms Reeves said the reserve had been 'exhausted' and decisions had been 'ducked'. Asylum system costs were £6.4billion over budget this year, while transport was £1.6billion over.
READ MORE:Whopper alert. Rachel Reeves whacked old-age pensioners and claimed it wasn't her fault. No one had told her the state of the nation's finances.
It was staccato, defensive, nervous, the tone much higher than her normal foghorn. Clenched, acidic, mean: those were some of the adjectives I scribbled in my notebook. Sir Keir Starmer, sitting alongside his Chancellor, pulled an uncomprehending face, as if sucking a mulberry. Sir Keir is never terribly clued up about economic matters.
Sir Keir and Ms Reeves had entered just before 3.30pm to a Commons that is still squeaky new and naive. Conservatives asked the Chancellor to say clearly that she was not inventing her shock discoveries of Treasury shortcomings. She declined to make such an undertaking
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