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2024-08-01 22:07:26 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

What this doesn't mention is that the outgoing Conservative government concealed a £22bn hole in the public finances in the full knowledge it would never have to balance the books. https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/Letter-from-Richard-Hughes-to-the-Treasury-Select-Committee-on-the-OBR-review-of-the-March-2024-forecast-for-departmental-expenditure-limits.pdf

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• What this doesn't mention is that the outgoing Conservative government concealed a £22bn hole in the public finances in the full knowledge it would never have to balance the books. https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/Letter-from-Richard-Hughes-to-the-Treasury-Select-Committee-on-the-OBR-review-of-the-March-2024-forecast-for-departmental-expenditure-limits.pdf