Badenoch called for Reeves to resign and defended her fiery Budget response

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for Rachel Reeves to resign, claiming the Chancellor snuck in tax rises to her Autumn Budget “to pay for welfare”.

In an interview with BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Badenoch said: “The Chancellor called an emergency press conference telling everyone about how terrible the state of the finances were and now we have seen that the OBR had told her the complete opposite.”

Following Wednesday’s Budget, the Office of Budget Responsibility chair, Richard Hughes, said as of 31 October, the Chancellor had maintained a fiscal buffer of £4.2bn, despite the productivity downgrade forecast.

Reeves has since disputed claims she misled the public, saying she was “very upfront” about as

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