Tories challenge chancellor to rule out tax rises in budget as Badenoch labelled ‘embarrassment’ for Bank of England gaffe – UK politics live

The Conservatives want to brand Burnham’s administration as a ‘traditional tax and spend socialist government’

This is from Torsten Bell, a Treasury minister, on Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Paul Nowak getting a post as a non-executive director on the Bank of England’s court.

Two Conservative Chancellors appointed Frances O’Grady - then TUC general secretary - to two terms on the Court of the Bank in the recent past. As @rbrharrison the welcome appointment of @nowak_paul today has a LOT of precedents