The Prime Minister repeated the allegation 11 times during the first general election debate on Tuesday
Rishi Sunak has denied Labour’s accusation that he lied by claiming that the party’s policy proposals would cost working households an
“Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are obviously very rattled that we’ve exposed their plans to raise tax on people,” he added.The £2,000 claim comes from a document produced by the Conservatives which made a series of assumptions to estimate the cost that might be attached to potential Labour policies.It stated that the difference between the money that Labour would raise from its policies and the amount it would spend would be a deficit of £38.
In a public letter, the Treasury’s permanent secretary, James Bowler, said ministers had been told not to suggest civil servants produced the figure at the heart of the Tory attack.
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