Rachel Reeves has been accused of misleading the general public over the state of the country’s finances before unveiling her Budget last week.

The chancellor and her team spent the months leading up to the biggest fiscal event of the year hinting that tax hikes were inevitable due to the dire state of the public finances.

However, just two days after the Budget, the UK’s independent financial forecaster – the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – suggesting Reeves’s remarks may have been more than a little inaccurate.

This split has triggered an almighty row across Westminster with Reeves’s political opponents even calling for her to resign, and even cabinet members criticising her .

Here’s what you need to know.

What did Rachel Reeves say about the state of the UK’s financ

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