UK Government was ‘digging its own black hole’ before Budget, says Flynn

The UK Government was “digging its own black hole” before the Budget, the SNP’s Westminster leader has said.

Pressure continues on Chancellor Rachel Reeves over whether the Treasury misleadingly briefed journalists ahead of last week’s statement, painting a bleaker fiscal picture than was actually the case.

The Prime Minister has backed his Chancellor following calls from opposition politicians for her to resign.

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland on Tuesday, the SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn accused the Prime Minister of “doubling down at this point on misleading” the public and Parliament.

“What he said there was that productivity has gone down, but the forecast was it had gone down by £16 billion, of course it has, but what he’s importantly not said there is that there was a £3