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Rachel Reeves confronts Treasury committee ahead of Tory censure motion in Commons, saying she misled voters about budget
Good morning. It’s PMQ today, but Chancellor Rachel Reeves is also facing intense scrutiny in the House of Commons today. He will give evidence to a Treasury committee at 10am and then face a rare motion of no confidence in the House of Commons at around 4pm.
Anyone who listens regularly to Commons debates will have heard one MP accuse another member of being “misleading” people, only to have the speaker intervene to say they were “deliberately misleading”. Under rules aimed at preserving good manners in debates, MPs are not allowed to accuse each other of lying or similar things. However, there is an exception if the main topic of the debate is whether a particular MP is lying or not.
And that’s what’s happening today. Today is an opposition day, meaning the Conservative Party can decide on the motions to be debated, and has introduced a motion of no confidence calling on Reeves to “apologize for misleading the country about the state of the public finances, taking the step of raising taxes, breaking promises and increasing welfare spending.” There’s no chance the motion will pass, but it means it will be open season for the chancellor in the House of Commons for around three hours.
Commenting on the movement Mel Stepthe shadow chancellor said:
Rachel Reeves has repeatedly misled the British public. He promised not to raise taxes on working people, and then he did. He insisted there was a black hole in the public finances, but there wasn’t.
Rachel Reeves put party before country, so today Conservatives are giving MPs the chance to formally condemn the Chancellor and call on him to apologize to families across the country.
Here is the agenda of the day.
9.30: The ONS publishes annual life expectancy figures.
Morning: Deputy prime minister and justice minister David Lammy and attorney-general Lord Hermer are attending the European Council summit in Strasbourg to discuss migration and the European convention on human rights.
10am: Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives evidence on the budget to the House of Commons Treasury committee.
Afternoon: Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at PMQs.
After 12.30: MPs are debating two opposition day motions from the Conservative Party: the first criticizes the employment rights bill and accuses the government of “making seasonal, flexible and part-time working difficult”; and then another called on Reeves to “apologize for misleading the country about the state of the public finances, taking the step of raising taxes, breaking promises and increasing welfare spending.”
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