Reeves warned over £50bn ‘debt fiddle’
The TelegraphRachel Reeves has been warned that interest rates will stay higher for longer after the Chancellor said she will change Britain’s debt rules to unleash a borrowing spree of up to £50bn. The Chancellor confirmed she will change how debt is calculated to take into account the benefits of investment spending at her maiden Budget next week, even as her plans triggered jitters in financial markets. In a departure from the previous government’s debt rules, the Chancellor said on Thursday her fiscal rules will ensure that debt will fall “during the course of this parliament”. The markets are watching.” Andrew Griffith, the former City minister, compared Ms Reeves’s plan to borrow more to “breaking promises like a runaway horse charging through jumps at the Grand National”.