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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil and Rachael Burford

Budget 2024: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves in growing clash with Commons Speaker over major economic news

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle granted an urgent debate in the Commons to haul Chancellor Rachel Reeves over the coals for “premature disclosure” of Budget details.

He has accused her of acting with “supreme discourtesy” towards MPs by announcing that she was easing her debt fiscal rule in Washington, in the US, where she was attending a meeting of the International Monetary Fund.

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