03-02-2018 21:15 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Treasury 'inventing' Brexit forecasts

Jacob Rees-Mogg has stepped up his attack on the Treasury, accusing civil servants in the department of producing a Brexit report that is "fundamentally wrong".The leading Tory Brexiteer, who was involved in a scuffle with protesters at a university event on Friday, was speaking about an internal Government assessment made public earlier this week.Mr Rees-Mogg had earlier said that the Treasury's economic modelling was "clearly politically influenced" and that they were "fiddling the figures" in
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