The BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme has also heard from shadow science secretary Andrew Griffith. He said Labour 'essentially lie to the British people' in terms of their plans, and compared the party's behaviour to the 'worst form of dodgy car hire firm'.'Already after 110 days, I think people are seeing that this government came in on a false prospectus that things would be easy.
The government has said their manifesto pledge not to raise national insurance only ever applied to the working element - fuelling speculation employer NI will go up in the budget.The chancellor has recently changed how debt is calculated to borrow more to invest, which critics say effectively changes the self-imposed fiscal rules she had previously described as non-negotiable.