Rachel Reeves calls Jeremy Hunt ‘liar’ over £22bn black hole in UK finances

Rachel Reeves accused Jeremy Hunt of lying over a £22bn spending hole.Source: Sky News

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00:00You said explicitly in the speech that the past government covered up a £22 billion hole in the public finances.

00:08Are you saying that Jeremy Hunt is a liar?

00:13Jeremy Hunt covered up from the House of Commons and from the country the true state of the public finances.

00:19He did that knowingly and deliberately.

00:21So he's a liar? If he covered something up knowingly, he's a liar.

00:25He lied and they lied during the election campaign about the state of the public finances.

00:30And the worst thing is, Wilf, it's even worse than that.

00:34Because during the general election campaign, I was really clear that everything that I was putting forward was fully costed and fully funded.

00:42We had these pages in our manifesto that set out the limited tax changes we were going to make

00:47and how that would pay for, for example, 40,000 appointments a week extra in the NHS.