Ministers showing 'utter contempt' for Parliament over Budget briefings, claim MPs
Cross-party MPs have lined up to attack the Government for showing Parliament "utter contempt" by briefing many of the details of tomorrow's Budget ahead of time. The Speaker had granted Labour an urgent question calling for "details of all the provisions in the upcoming Budget that have been made public in advance of the Chancellor's statement", after the Treasury defied his stern rebuke yesterday. Sir Lindsay Hoyle had implied that Rishi Sunak should resign over the repeated announcements made ahead of Wednesday's statement, but Treasury officials ignored this to push out further measures, including the end to the public sector pay freeze. Mr Sunak was down to respond, however his junior Simon Clarke was left to defend him, with criticism from Conservatives such as Sir John Redwood, the veteran Conservative MP, Dr Julian Lewis and Sir Desmond Swayne as well as opposition MPs. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/26/sunak-budget-public-sector-pay-rise-national-living-wage/ #budget #MPs #urgentquestions #speaker #rishisunak Subscribe to The Telegraph on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/3idrdLH Get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
