Reeves faces Treasury committee before Tory censure motion in Commons saying she misled voters about budget – UK politics live
The chancellor will give evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the budget from 10amGood morning. It is PMQs today, but Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is also facing intense scrutiny in the Commons today. She is giving evidence to the Treasury committee at 10am and then, from about 4pm,...
<p>The chancellor will give evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the budget from 10am</p><p>Good morning. It is PMQs today, but Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is also facing intense scrutiny in the Commons today. She is giving evidence to the Treasury committee at 10am and then, from about 4pm, she will face a rare censure motion in the Commons.</p><p>Anyone who listens to Commons debates regularly will have heard an MP accuse another member of “misleading” people, only for the speaker to intervene to say they must have meant “intentionally misleading”. Under rules intended to maintain decorum in debates, MPs are not allowed to accuse each other of lying, or anything similar. But there is an exception if whether or not a particular MP has lied is the actual subject of the debate.</p><p>Rachel Reeves has repeatedly misled the British public. She promised she wouldn’t raise taxes on working people - and then she did. She insisted there was a black hole in the public finances - and there wasn’t.</p><p>Rachel Reeves has put party before country, so today the Conservatives are giving MPs the chance to formally censure the Chancellor and call on her to apologise to families across the country.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/10/pmqs-latest-news-updates-rachel-reeves-treasury-committee-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch">Continue reading...</a>
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