Prime Minister Keir Starmer personally approved Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s controversial description of a supposed fiscal “black hole”, despite being told by the Office for Budget Responsibility that the public finances were not in deficit. The confirmation from Downing Street has intensified the sense of a government losing its grip on credibility, authority and public trust. … Continue reading Starmer Signed Off on Reeves’s Contested “Black Hole” Claims as Pressure Mounts for Both to Quit