Chancellor admits she was 'wrong' on taxes during election

[@WayneFawcett-v1h]

I don't trust or believe her. She's lying.

[@stephenkelly2779]

Neo liberalism Tory liebour same pish trickle down rubbish

[@Normality_Remembered]

Isnt is fair and reasonable that if tories hoodwinked parliament and the regulatory body as to the state of the public purse, that she has a strong defence to say that any decisions or thoughts she communicated (based on that false information) isnt a valid argument? (former tory voter who's never dream of voting anything other than tory but based on the state of the country and growing radicalation of conservative politicians, changed this time)

[@MicroBlogger1954]

They are all liars all parties

[@paulclairethomas1344]

It's about saving her reputation, for what it is worth.

[@Pinkdam]

She knows that money not only can be, but is produced as and when it is needed. To say 'the money was not available' is just nonsensical.

[@srana2990]

Sick of listening 22bn in every interview. They just lied and now raising tax on everything.

[@MrJohnfoster70]

Righting the Wrongs of far right Tory/Farage corruption.

[@TrevorEden]

Yes but it true hunt running for cover over the report that out the Tory bid leave one mess

[@ppetal1]

That is not the crucial problem. It is "growth".

[@MrJohnfoster70]

@@srana2990 Never ever again trust the Tory/Reform conmen.

[@barrypodmore]

Me too. It's like they have all been implanted with a mantra. The other one is "fix the foundations" I could put my foot through the tv.

[@gftjghdt3582]

I can remember labour saying everything is fully costed, and then they get in and borrow £50 billion, so they were lying simple as

[@Noel-ji8nm]

The scoundrel lied to become Labour leader.

[@AlunsSomatics]

She just said they weren't aware of the black hole until they came into government.

[@Bungle-UK]

@@AlunsSomaticsah, the mythical black hole 😂

[@TheWebstaff]

​@@Bungle-UKno longer mystical! We are all about to start paying for it!!

[@gftjghdt3582]

@AlunsSomatics a black hole that appears after the pay rises, and the £12 billion in climate aid all sounds a bit odd to me I'm not saying that the tories were good they deserved what happened I'm just saying labour has lied since they got in so does that black hole exist as the amounts keep changing

[@nikoslazaridis2739]

She was wrong but for her, life goes on as normal.

[@AlunsSomatics]

It takes courage and decency to admit your wrong.How many times did the Tories do the same? Zilch! They lied instead. Never vote them in again unless they move back to right of centre.

[@elizabethmcandrew4985]

How can a woman who complained about trying to manage on £75k plus expenses, salary PA, plus free home fuel cost + her husband’s income (double hers) have any understanding about how pensioners can manage without warm winter discount.

[@SandeepMann-d1v]

​@@elizabethmcandrew4985 I disagree with your argument completely and it's completely stupid

[@ssuwandi3240]

Big government asylum program should be abolished and that's likely where she could reduce the spending in immigration

[@jackspring7709]

Tbh she lied - they all did. She knew what the score was but labour just lied to get in.

[@hammadcheema183]

I am a small business owner, I’m barely surviving as is. Why am I not considered as ‘working person’? I will have to draw less salary every month (by the way some months I hardly draw anything because I don’t have anything to draw). I cannot pay my staff more now and I won’t be able to hire anyone. I’m devastated as a result.

[@traceyrhoden9808]

I have been saying to everyone that business owners are working people

[@krishnagondhea7428]

It’s terrible. They don’t support businesses. They don’t support entrepreneurs. They think workers is limited to those who work on the nhs train drivers and teachers and those sales assistants working in shops. Everyone else isn’t deserving

[@ianlewis2813]

Labour = free gifts + lies

[@AlunsSomatics]

Tories=Free undeclared gifts and lies, dodgy PPE contracts to their friends and donors, peership to their donors and sons of top KGB spies.

[@stephenford2758]

Conservatives have left the economy in such a mess

[@IndaloTom]

@@stephenford2758yeah… and I was told that the NHS was done for 14 years ago… if I didn’t vote Labour. It’s still here 👍🏻

[@arunyankee6525]

@@IndaloTom It can never be done till people keep coming in without planning. Increase in populating will keep putting pressure on services and its cost will keep increasing.

[@BillDavies-ej6ye]

@@IndaloTom It's still here but has struggled with each passing year. I'm just one of the too many people on a years-long waiting list for surgery.

[@dd185]

Absolute liar. They are all the same.

[@asmith9140]

odly enough government can raid the bank accounts of people on benefits who are missing behaving but not the accounts of water company shareholders it's not right is it

[@tomwright9904]

No she is worse

[@shaneofftheplane3953]

@@tomwright9904 She got took into a room of Treasury Advisors. (The Puppet Masters) She's paid to lie.

[@NobbingNobby]

Meanwhile, she’s living at No. 11 Downing Street for free whilst privately renting out her south London 4 bedroom home for £3,200 a month. I wonder if she pays the water/gas/electricity bills at No. 11 or does the state pick up the tab?

[@JoeCampion-ni8qh]

What aßhitm, ß

[@Denzilcleveridge]

We know who pays…. We do.

[@collier8931]

This is disgusting she is a bloody disgrace. She just feathering her own nest, all the Labour MPs are. £3,200 a month and still claiming for a second home.

[@NobbingNobby]

@ Good point about the second home in her constituency.

[@glenntoplis8872]

Champagne socialist at its best

[@kriskalpa]

ask her why she's giving 11b to African warlords but destroying family farming for a measly 500m. why are pensioners freezing and prisoners being released? is she destroying British farming to free up cheap land for houses for illegal migrants?

[@thomashobbs1498]

What a load of cobblers

[@twisteddancer7773]

​@@thomashobbs1498And three billion a year to Zelensky

[@mrnice7570]

​@@thomashobbs1498facts don't care about your delusions

[@Noel-ji8nm]

Replace African with Ukrainian.

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@twisteddancer7773 In a war which the west started.

[@StephenTheocharous]

This woman has no expression in her face, talks in one tone, and doesn’t give a crap, simples

[@veilbreak5867]

That's not a woman.... Its an obvious trans.

[@jaysandhu8080]

😂

[@voice.of.reason]

@@veilbreak5867 Keir doesn't know what a woman is....

[@LondonInvestorTips]

Sound of her voice makes me feel sick

[@DaveZee823]

She doesn't even blink!

[@tinmanchapman921]

Liar, untrustworthy, out of touch. Can’t believe a word that any of them say

[@Noel-ji8nm]

No one did, which is why it was the second lowest turnout since 1918.

[@shauntuite157]

Typical politician, any time their lips move there is a 99.9 percent chance it’s a lie.

[@Billywoo12]

The shift in her step and the stutter when she said 'have no plans to increase taxes' says it all. She lied and deceived. No more, no less.

[@twisteddancer7773]

Notice she blinks a lot as well a tell tail sign

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@@twisteddancer7773You should have voted for Corbyn.

[@voice.of.reason]

No plans this minute.....

[@davidplayle5674]

It’s £22 billion now 😂 Liars can’t remember what they last said when put on the spot.

[@barbararobertson2307]

And labour will treble it

[@voice.of.reason]

They lost another 2 billion overnight

[@martyndawson7484]

The fictional black whole thing is wearing thin now. Don't give idiot Milliband £11billion quid stolen of workers.

[@umist123]

Who messed up the economy in the first place? She's been in office for less than 6 months and people seem to blame her for all the economic ills.....Be objective.....

[@veganbarnsley15]

It was £22bn back on 5th August, don’t make things up. Go check the facts.

[@mrnice7570]

LIARS, FRAUDSTERS, CRIMINALS

[@TheWebstaff]

Yeap, that is a great description of the previous government! It's like the gambler who gambles the house's savings away secretly and then the partner finds out and it breaks everything!

[@JanetWilson-is6kc]

AGREE.

[@danieljameshustler]

LABOUR OUT!

[@graemeross1998]

Aren't all politicians

[@markfaulkner5269]

@@TheWebstaff Can't wait to vote these clowns out. They haven't got a clue.

[@sohamthakor5949]

What a load of crap. The whole government is dreadful.

[@Guide504]

HOW DARE SHE TELL BUSINESSES TO FIND THE EXTRA TAX THROUGH EFFICIENCY WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WASTE AND PET PROJECT FAILINGS ARE DISGUSTING.

[@simofernandes7465]

Anything managed by the State is a Disaster. NHS does not need more money, It needs efficiency. Fire the Managers first

[@albfromeng]

That’s the tories.

[@Guide504]

@albfromeng no they don't waste it so much as give it to their mates ! The moment BJ declared a national emergency and gave access to the war chest the gluttonous basterds smashed their snouts in the trough!!!

[@albfromeng]

@@Guide504 the PET failings were under the Tory government not the Labour government

[@Guide504]

@albfromeng yes what's your point ? I don't like either side of the same system !

[@markwarren5984]

The full obr report dose not back up everything she said

[@judidonnie1167]

She can't help lying as soon as her mouth opens, she's not an economist & couldn't even cope with ther household money

[@TheWebstaff]

No she's the partner who just found out the husband's been gambling and the households in massive debt.

[@jrobs1133]

@@TheWebstaff and now the wife has got her credit card out 🤣

[@reevinator]

Why reporter not make a point about reducing state, cutting waste, reducing foreign aid, stopping illegal immigration?

[@karlosthejackel69]

Because he’s African

[@Helifella882]

Because the MSM is run and owned by government propagandists who manipulate the outcomes on behalf of the government. She gets briefed on the questions before and tells them what they can ask. Haven't people worked that out yet?

[@nathijomac]

I mean, we've just done that for 14 years

[@madon360]

Rapid blinking, stammering and stuttering, all classic signs that a lie is being told.

[@Bungle-UK]

So, she’s a liar then. Is Two Tier Kier going to arrest her for spreading misinformation?

[@collier8931]

If only.

[@pharmageddon7000]

I wonder if she knew about Two Tier Kier's 'tax unregistered' pension scheme when she drew up her budget plans. Surely that could have been targeted to plug a bit of the £22 bilion black hole.

[@danielwebb8402]

"I wasn't lying. I'm professionally incompetent" Cool

[@terminater996]

She never shuts up about that black hole ,it's like a record player stuck on repeat 🤣🤣

[@BillDavies-ej6ye]

It's going to take a few years to clear up the mess left by previous occupants.

[@terminater996]

@BillDavies-ej6ye all parties are as bad as each other , all of them have made mistakes

[@biggobmalc8118]

Because that's a line she's been told to use, even though OBR say otherwise.

[@mypointofview1111]

Has anyone noticed how she speaks like a ventriloquist dummy? Sounds like one as well 😂😂😂

[@terminater996]

@@mypointofview1111 she seems to repeat things over and over ,which tells me she doesn't know what she's talking about and has no idea how to deal with numbers 🤣

[@stefangreen3762]

Never ever run a business. Frightening

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Hunt had very successfully and he was hated too.

[@anandmorris]

​@jjefferyworboys8138 as much as i may not like him, his policy was working.

[@indilota3457]

She's needs to go. More and more bs. Am I missing something? Are employers not working people too? This lady is full of so much bs, lies

[@BillDavies-ej6ye]

No, employers employ workers, who produce goods and services. A proportion of the excess value of that activity is extracted as profit. This is the government's definition: www.gov.uk/employment-status/worker

[@shaunod6745]

Why would anyone start a business when they will be punished with higher taxation and forced to pay higher wages. All that will happen now is that there will be layoffs because employers won't be able to keep their staff. Or people will see the cost of everything skyrocket because businesses will have to raise the prices to make up the difference.

[@albfromeng]

It’s about time employers pay workers a living wage.

[@JohnDavies-l9v]

This woman is ghastly. Not telling the truth. The country will bitterly regret voting in this lot although the last lot where terrible too. Feel so sorry for my fellow Brits. I live in Holland where society is better all round .

[@alanbatt]

I would not trust this Chancellor with a pile of grass cuttings!

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

As I recall Hunt was hated by many people. No Chancellor will ever be popular, someone will always be pissed off.

[@twisteddancer7773]

Reeves also claimed she was a chess champion but come twenty first

[@PrioryCampion]

She told a lies I read it’s all in her mind 😅

[@collier8931]

Because she’s a bloody LIAR.

[@TimComley]

And Angela rayner was twentieth 😂

[@ashherron2211]

Absolute nonsense !! They knew !! They covered it up!! Another grifter!!!!

[@aok1550]

I am afraid I don’t believe a word this woman says!

[@umist123]

Sure and where are your facts?

[@annenorth8553]

@@umist123 Facts? oh their opinion? FFS! 🙄🙄🙄

[@annenorth8553]

I wouldnt trust her to tell me the right time...... even if she was wearing MY watch!

[@davidcook6064]

The OBR didn't know? Not according to them. Someone's not telling the truth, and I know who I believe.

[@susieroberts8175]

It's always someone else's fault, isn't it? She disgusts me.

[@paulwilliams5013]

A common trait of a narcissist....zero accountability.. ever!

[@GaryBurdenuik-g8y]

Now we all have a black hole in our finances

[@tonylee1893]

Managed to find 11 billion for inflation busting pay rises for train drivers & other public sector workers but at same time took the pensioners WFA from them !!

[@zaidahmed9527]

Does she really think employers will just take the burden and private schools will just pay for the 20% vat increase.... No, it will all be passed on to the consumers.... And mainly "the working people".

[@barrylingard5993]

She was lying then and she’s lying now. 👿

[@Sunny-rn9gt]

O here we go there was a black hole £15 billion £20 billion £22 billion all a load of BS 😢

[@keithml1]

I wouldn't trust her under any circumstances, She's a bare faced liar. She has been advised by Gordon Brown and he was an absolute disaster by every measure.

[@voice.of.reason]

Crash Gordon, the man who claimed he had ended 'Boom and Bust' only to cause the biggest bust in the history of peacetime Britain

[@susieroberts8175]

@@voice.of.reason yup - he sold our gold and cost us a HUGE amount.

[@johncurtis7805]

Absolute bs. She knew exactly what was what.

[@LondonInvestorTips]

Who is paying for the boat people 40,000 coming in every year plus all the families they will bring over

[@markgohegan1590]

Businesses will increase their margins to pay for the NI contributions-products will cost more, ''ordinary working people'' will be paying for it.............She did say no ''direct'' increase to the working people............nothing about the ''indirect'' increases..........

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Then she kept her promise. It's called an unintended consequence, happens all the time.

[@pamt7740]

For someone who is NOT an economist, NEVER!! Their aim is destroying this country.

[@albfromeng]

@@hithere981 people are ridiculous aren’t they, blinded by their Tory fantasy

[@ToirealachLochlainn]

THE MSM haven't touched on mass unemploymen yet. 😂

[@markwright130]

Myself friends and family will continue to vote reform and hopefully save our country. Never ever ever again trust the treacherous lying tories or Labour

[@voice.of.reason]

Enough viewers of the garbage that is Sky News will have voted for these clowns and the Lib Dems instead of Reform

[@albfromeng]

Yeah because Farage is so trustworthy

[@starshine6230]

Every bloody interview has got "We inherited 22 bill black hole" change the god dam record.

[@voice.of.reason]

In her budget speech she mentioned it about 15 times

[@krishnagondhea7428]

Oh your going to hear that for the next 5 years. And the thing is they were responsible for half of it not that they’d care to admit

[@marineboy1964]

I struggle with anything the labour party, the BBC and sky news has to say to be honest, that's why I don't watch the mainstream media anymore

[@lion73266]

Reeves opens her mouth, the lies flow out. Who can believe a word she utters?

[@stepup898]

By my calculation that’s the 22 billionth time she has mentioned the 22 billion black hole.

[@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn]

Yes, and it's a porky pie. The obr says it's 9.5 billion.

[@angelmakerbo]

She makes Pinoccio look innocent.

[@Anthony-id3jg]

Every single time a politican opens there mouth it's lies, lies,lies,regardless of political party

[@gordoncampbell3514]

She operates on the same fiscal policy as my wife, " I need to buy a loaf of bread and six eggs, they wil cost £4.50 but I only have £3." "OK" say I, here's £1.50. "NOOO!" I need a fiver.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

When the governments have been borrowing 20 billion a month for 20 years is a sign it`s not going well. Even my cat knows this.

[@Jai-fm4jx]

She looks condemned

[@3d1e00]

We live in a country where the lowest workers will get fired if they sneeze in the wrong direction. Yet our leadership roles and the incredible responsibility burdened upon them, get to fail, over and over and over. And they stay, they get pay rises. And they continue to fail. These are the ones at fault.

[@LesPlank-d8o]

She's full of crap

[@jackspring7709]

I guess she was "mistaken", lol. We did try to warn labour voters they would do this. Btw - I also want to point out that the man interviewing her, Trevor Phillips, is from the Labour party, too: he served as Chair of the London assembly during the Blair/Brown years.

[@keithg1xfl]

It's Time for Labour to PROVE there is a 22 Billion Black Hole

[@krishnagondhea7428]

Yes they need to publish precise figures. Need to see it black and white.

[@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn]

There is a black hole, but it is 9.5 billion.

[@krishnagondhea7428]

@@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn then they are lying to us!

[@liam-james]

Ironically the 22 billion they keep quoting is mostly their own spending. Absolute joke. All MPs are the same sack the lot off.

[@noonrich336]

It looked like she was sucking a lemon 🍋 throughout that grilling 😂

[@Zaidenshaw]

Do they really expect in 2024 that they can "hide" a 22 billion pound black hole?

[@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn]

It's actually 9.5 billion.

[@crazymax3294]

there is BIG difference between being wrong & LIAR !

[@sheilamashali6426]

The lights are on but there is nobody home.

[@LondonInvestorTips]

It’s all witchcraft

[@paulwilliams5013]

..i'm even doubtful about the lights!!

[@Rose-46456]

Liars lie more than once.

[@Cosmoscosmos1]

I really hope the people that voted Labour into power are listening to this. 1970s re run here we come.

[@susieroberts8175]

I remember the 3 day week. Awful.

[@albfromeng]

I remember the last Labour government where the NHS waiting list was smaller, food was more affordable, food banks were in lower digits and politics had less of a dominant narrative in our daily lives. I also remember what it was like to not know who Liz Truss, Suella, Hancock etc were and it was great ! Take me back ☀️

[@hunanuk]

The inconsistent statement can demonstrate she is untruthful. She is not being honest.

[@teryd5672n]

I do get tired of blaming the previous government. How about trying to grow the economy. Wealth creation will provide better public services, making us all poorer will not.

[@Jamal-Ahmed786]

Without investment spending there can be no growth and wealth creation.

[@albfromeng]

I’m sorry but there is blame to be given. They wouldn’t make this unpopular decision otherwise. I don’t blame them for hating and slamming the tories when our quality of life in the uk is a total contrast to life when Labour was in power.

[@kevinhancock9475]

She is just lying.

[@sleepyrasta420]

Trust a politician? That's a good one 😂

[@trevorsmith5597]

What a liar she is, all our policies have been fully costed. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️💩

[@JayneMercer-n7u]

LIAR she makes me sick

[@IanHiley-n3g]

Liar, liar pants on fire

[@vicowen5300]

They lie as soon as they open mouth cant help themselves.

[@barbararobertson2307]

No never to be trusted Bunch of liars and greedy too.

[@msingh2333]

Liar

[@Wakeywakey-j2b]

Wow 0.5 % growth and buy 500 pints and get one free we are being spoiled 😂

[@thomasrees4573]

Absolute liar.......

[@lesliecunliffe4450]

How can a government hide a black hole debt from civil servants who are the ones that work on the finances?

[@davidsinn5758]

She's talking Bull, pushing forward 6th form politics

[@btmorley833]

Nobody saw this coming…

[@margaretthompson1258]

Liar Liar pants on fire

[@bobjrdj]

She is a politician so is automatically a liar and a snout in the trough kind of girl. She's like a robot banging on about the mythical 22 bn black hole with no proof of where this came from, yet the treasury found another 22bn from somewhere to pander to Milliband's fanatical pursuit of net zero at any cost. Makes me sick.

[@solegs100]

Someone change this presenter please! take your ear piece out and ask the difficult questions! With the changes in employment costs then those investments may never come now! They don't discuss the amount of immigration that has had an issue on the social services! So what's the plan to reduce the strain by reducing immigration?

[@Jonny-x3l]

Alls I see is the country going backwards every year

[@mkirwan7165]

Look at that face , what a liar, Does she actually believe the the public is believing her,

[@alanjoyner4327]

Don’t believe a word she says

[@sharonwashington8150]

SHE is no real chancellor BUT A CHANCER!! at best.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Who would be a real Chancellor, pick someone and tell me why ?

[@sharonwashington8150]

@@jjefferyworboys8138 Any one that does not ROB, LIE or go out of their way to DECIEVE one and all. May have to dig one up!! somewhere after all the bunch of Liars and con merchants this country as had for years.

[@albfromeng]

@@jjefferyworboys8138probably wants Liz and Kwasi back

[@lynclarke6184]

Blatant liar.

[@LondonInvestorTips]

She is paying for boat people in 5 star hotels

[@1MrLondon]

Can’t we please start pushing back on the “22bn black hole”? The OBR have said it is b78locks!

[@matthewharding-ew1ts]

Yawn.............not even a qualified economist. Wait until the next budget, ouch.

[@monkeyboy8424]

Dear Swiftie Starmer, Can I have my vote back please ?

[@colleenholland10]

They filled that big hole paying train drivers, unions and of course no mention of ' illegals' who will not go without. Poor farmers! Sick of this liar

[@frankbirchmore9436]

U know she is lying her lips are moving

[@simmosimmo100]

They will be blaming Israel next!

[@a13xdunlop]

Makes a change from Pitin.

[@voice.of.reason]

Or Russia, that is usually the favourite excuse

[@justinefleming7756]

Dont forget she knows the question before hand,knows what's coming,no proper interview then.

[@Paul-qg3iw]

Labour are vile

[@clarencegreen6341]

Not my Labour.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

She does lie a lot to get jobs etc.

[@carolynesimpson6070]

She is a Chancer with our hard earned money and now the King!!!!!!!!!!

[@simmosimmo100]

I can't listen to this woman any longer. Another Starmer automiton.

[@TheBlacky004]

Did she say "Start up businesses?" This woman is totally deranged. She does not have the acumen to oversee the national finances. It's horrific that someone gave her the job.