Starmer: Reeves Did Not Mislead Public Ahead of Budget

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00:00There was no misleading, and I simply don't accept, and I was receiving the numbers,

00:06that being told that the OBR productivity review means you've got £16 billion less than you would otherwise have had

00:14shows that you've got an easy starting point.

00:17Yes, of course all the other figures have to be taken into account,

00:19but we started the process with significantly less than we would otherwise have had.

00:24There was a point at which we thought, myself included, that we might have to reach for a manifesto breach of some significance.

00:36I didn't want to get to that place, but I recognised we might have to.

00:41And as the process then continued, it became clear to me and others that we might be able to do what we needed to do with our priorities

00:49without that manifesto breach.

00:52And that's what we did with the fair and necessary decisions that we took.