Richard Tice
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Richard Tice (Boston and Skegness) (Reform)
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, the hon. Member for Swansea West (Torsten Bell), and the Chancellor have both inadvertently misled the House by saying that Government borrowing is coming down. It is not: in the Budget, borrowing for this year will be almost £20 billion higher than at the March OBR forecast; and for the lifetime of the Budget book, it will be £65 billion higher.
Torsten Bell
I know that the hon. Member is excitable at best, but borrowing figures in the OBR’s forecasts are falling every single year as a share of GDP, and they will fall because of the decisions made by this Labour Government, who are getting borrowing down and rescuing our public services.