Sussan Ley’s numbers man Alex Hawke has sensationally unleashed on Jim Chalmers labelling him “hopeless and a liar” after the Treasurer blamed the Coalition for the RBA’s decision to hold interest rates.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers was more animated than usual during Wednesday’s question time and ripped into Opposition Leader Sussan Ley for claiming the Reserve Bank of Australia had taken aim at the government’s rising spending rate after it chose to hold interest rates at 3.60 per cent.

“The Leader of the Opposition said completely untruthfully, dishonestly, that the Reserve Bank yesterday called out the government ‘s spending when it came to the decision that they took independently at the board level. That never happened,” Dr Chalmers said.

Mr Chalmers said Ms Ley had been peddling an “eg

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