RE: Martin Lewis5 Jun 2024 20:11
The UK stats watchdog is looking into a claim reiterated by Rishi Sunak on the TV debate last night, where he said Labour would put up taxes by £2,100 if they won, citing Treasury civil servants as the source.
Not true, said Labour, citing a letter from James Bowler, the Treasury’s top man, that the numbers were not produced by the Civil Service but were a Conservative party document.
Bowler wrote to shadow Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones to say that the figures used by Sunak "include costs beyond those provided by the civil service and published online by HM Treasury".