Now the cabinet turn on Reeves

Oh dear. It seems that Rachel Reeves’ Sunday media round has done nothing to answer questions about whether she misled the country about the national finances. The Chancellor – or ‘the Chancer’ in the words of the Sun – has repeatedly denied lying about the size of the fiscal black hole in the run-up to the Budget. But her protestations of innocence have not been enough to convince a growing band of skeptics, which now, er, include members of her own front bench. Talk about losing the faithful…

A series of ministers have told the Times that the cabinet was misled in the weeks ahead of Wednesday’s Budget. One says:

Why did Keir and Rachel allow the country to believe for so long that we would break our manifesto by putting up income tax by 2p when they would have known that wasn’t t