Treasury queries Sunak’s £2,000 tax claim he used in

The PM claimed ‘independent Treasury officials’ were behind a claim that Labour would raise taxes for every family by £2,000

Here is a summary of how the papers covered last night’s debate by Jonathan Yerushalmy.

In the debate last night Rishi Sunak claimed that “independent Treasury officials” were behind the claim that Labour would raises taxes for every family by £2,000. He said:

This election is about the future. And I’m clear that I’m going to keep cutting people’s taxes and as we now are.

You want to put everyone’s taxes up by £2,000 pounds. This is really important.

In your letter you highlight that the £38bn figure used in the Conservative party’s publication [the basis for the £2,000 per household claim] includes costs provided by the civil service and published online by HM Treasury.

I agree that any costings derived from other sources or produced by other organisations should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service.