Rachel Reeves has responded to claims that she misled the public over the size of the fiscal “repair job” she faced while laying out her November Budget.

This came after the Conservatives claimed that the pessimistic financial forecast Reeves laid out ahead of the Budget was inaccurate, after the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) released data to show it was not as bad as feared.

On Sunday morning, the Chancellor said that “of course” she did not lie to the public with her forecast at the start of the month.

She said, “Anyone who thinks that there was no repair job to be done on the public finances, I just don’t accept that.

“We needed to build more resilience, more headroom into our economy. That’s what I did, along with that investment in the NHS and cutting bills for famili

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