Jeremy Hunt 'disappointed' that Reeves said he 'lied to the country'

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Published 2024-07-30
Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt reacts to his successor Rachel Reeves' accusation that there was a £22bn black hole in the public finances that he "lied" to the country about. 

He says, "I think it's very disappointing that the new government is choosing to do politics this way."

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All Comments (21)
  • @toriesout8692
    Hunt is a renowned liar. He kept saying that the economy was going great but also saying it wasn’t, then circling back to say reform and cuts were needed. We were all asking him and his party where the money was coming from for his projects, but he never explained it. Finding out he was using emergency funds tracks.
  • @Maksimszz
    No way he thinks the rwanda scheme was actually good? How are paying for flights everytime for asylum seekers a good thing for the economy????????
  • Tories, "Unions, won't meet us"! Mick Lynch, called the Tories out, as liars, and they did'nt like the truth!😂 Labour settled pay, in 3 weeks! 😂😂
  • Personally, I would rather give money to our nurses and doctors than waste it on the Rwanda scheme than never worked unless we ditch human rights.
  • @blazzz13
    In 2010 the Tories made a mountain out of a molehill by politicising a note left by the Labour government as part of history and tradition. 2024 Labour are deploying the same tactics and Hunt is crying foul.
  • @Crimsonyte21
    But he IS a liar though? A prolific, possibly even pathological, liar. How can he be angry over the truth? Politicians are such dogs.
  • @Solsbeary
    man with proven track record of lying, outraged at being called a liar.
  • @silverfox7523
    Yes he will obviously skirt around this issue as what Rachel says is true, she’s just stating the facts which is backed up by OBR
  • @andrewmyles88
    Pensioners get the triple lock on their pension. They can pay for their own winter fuel, like the rest of us
  • @billy4072
    if it looks like a liar, speaks like a liar , acts like a liar... Chunt.
  • Obr exposed him and now he is salving his reputation. Trying to. She said what we all thought. Also look at him not denying it
  • @nickwhite1513
    IFS Director Paul Johnson said: “Rachel Reeves is within her rights to feel somewhat aggrieved. It was always clear and obvious that the spending plans she inherited were incompatible with Labour’s ambitions for public services, and that more cash would be required eventually. But the extent of the in-year funding pressures does genuinely appear to be greater than could be discerned from the outside, which only adds to the scale of the problem. Nonetheless, some of the specifics are indeed shocking, and raise some difficult questions for the last government. If the scale of these overspends and spending pressures was apparent in the spring – and in lots of cases, there’s no reason to suppose otherwise – then it is hard to understand why they weren’t made clear or dealt with in the Spring Budget. Jeremy Hunt’s £10 billion cut to national insurance looks ever less defensible. On asylum costs, the decision to effectively stop processing claimants, and to budget virtually nothing for the resultant costs of housing them, looks like very poor policy making. The new Chancellor is right to be cross.
  • @nogingerfool1
    "honest honourable government " the absolute gaol of this man