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Sir keir starmer Have to face questions from MPs about the results of Budget Following a report warning of the impact of tax rises on the British economy over the next two years.
The Prime Minister will appear in the House of Commons on Wednesday for his weekly confrontation with the Conservative leader Kemi Badenocha week after the chancellor Rachel Reeves Set a budget.
Sir Keir faces continued scrutiny of the government’s fiscal plans, including from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which has warned that tax rises and lower spending will act as a “headwind” for the UK economy over the next two years.
Leading international organization OECD has also warned in its latest report that inflation in Britain this year will be the highest among all G7 advanced economies.
Growth will remain slow this year and next, adding there are “substantial” downside risks to the government’s fiscal plans.
Ms Reeves has consistently faced allegations that she “misled” voters on the state of the public finances ahead of the Budget.
But the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) suggested on Tuesday that the Chancellor’s messaging in the weeks before the statement was “not inconsistent” with the analysis shared with them.
After the budget, the government and OBR have come face to face.
That’s partly because the watchdog released a timetable for its pre-Budget forecast, which undermined Ms Reeves’ suggestion that she needed to raise taxes to plug the hole in the public finances.
Professor David Miles, a member of the budget monitoring committee, told MPs on Tuesday: “My interpretation was – and other people may interpret differently – that the Chancellor was saying this was a very difficult budget and very difficult choices needed to be made.”
Professor Miles denied that the OBR was “at war” with the Treasury following the resignation of watchdog boss Richard Hughes.
Mr Hughes resigned as chair of the OBR on Monday after his assessment of the Chancellor’s plans was inadvertently made available online before he gave his speech last Wednesday.
former labor prime minister gordon brown Ms Reeves has hit out at critics of a major intervention to tackle child poverty by removing the two-child benefit limit.
Writing for the Daily Mirror, Mr Brown said supporters of the move “need to expose this week’s Tory lie that abolition does not help lift children out of poverty, but merely subsidizes benefits for working-class, indolent and careless parents”.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch branded Ms Reeves’ decision to raise taxes while scrapping the cap a “profit-for-profit budget”.