Chancellor to face Sunday morning shows where she will be grilled over whether she misled the public about the state of the economy

Rachel Reeves said she “of course” had not lied about the state of the public finances before the budget. “Of course I didn’t,” she told Trevor Phillips.

Earlier, the chancellor had told his programme:

In the context of a downgrade in our productivity, which cost £16bn, I needed to increase taxes, and I was honest and frank about that in the speech that I gave at beginning of November.