Labour Scrambles to Insist Fiscal Rules Won’t Change After Starmer Wobble – Guido Fawkes

Labour Scrambles to Insist Fiscal Rules Won’t Change After Starmer Wobble

After Starmer’s wobbly answer on Chancellor’s two fiscal rules yesterday No 10 spinners insisted to hacks that the rules were indeed “ironclad” and wouldn’t change. Just like that promise on tax…

Sky News’ Sam Coates says Downing Street was “pretty cross” about reporting of the question and accused him of “winding up other journalists.” Rattled…

Wes Streeting has been dispatched this morning to reinforce the line:

“We’re committed to the fiscal rules, the fiscal rules are not changing. We are of course looking carefully at the global situation, it is going to have an impact on the British economy. It is a challenging time for the public finances as everyone knows.”

Backbench Labour MPs are beginning to push for more borrowing and Starmer will no doubt have been told to produce a more resolute line at the Liaison Committee later today. Starmer’s commitment to the fiscal rules may survive as long as his Chancellor does…