The chancellor said it was right to accept the public sector pay review bodies’ recommendations, even if the recommendations were for above-inflation rises
Balls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded. Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public were misled. That is the end of the interview.
But Balls goes on to say that “strictly speaking” Reeves was not right in how she is allocating blame. He says that, if civil servants are asked to approve something they think is improper, then can demand a ministerial direction .
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