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Watch: OBR denies review legitimises Labour’s £22bn claim

31 October 2024

5:06 AM

31 October 2024

5:06 AM

Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement has been and gone but the fallout from today’s Budget is still being assessed. One rather interesting element of the Chancellors’ speech this afternoon concerns the Labour government’s claim that the Conservatives left a £22bn blackhole in the economy after the party’s 14 years in government.

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