Jeremy Hunt launches Tory fightback over Labour’s ‘disgraceful, fake news, lie’
by David Maddox
May 17, 2024
3 minutes
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Jeremy Hunt accused Labour of telling “a lie” about Tory tax plans as he launched his party’s fightback in the week that saw the starting gun fired for the election campaign.
In an unusually fiery speech, the chancellor claimed that Labour’s attempt to scare voters about the future of the state pension was “disgraceful”.
He also alleged that “the most conservative estimate” had concluded that Sir Keir Starmer’s spending plans would , meaning that “Labour will have no choice but to put up
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