This afternoon the Chancellor made an extraordinary statement to the House of Commons, claiming finances are worse than expected even though she said before the Election, the openness of Treasury accounts meant she would not be able to hide behind such a preposterous line.
More seriously, I asked her why she was politically prioritising hurting pensioners' finances by taking away the Winter Fuel allowance to pay for 22% public sector pay rises, rather than challenging the Bank of England on their losses from bond sales that require tens of billions of pounds of taxpayer bailout each year. She totally failed to answer.
