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Camilla Tominey slammed Rachel Reeves after she refused to sit down for an interview on GB News. The politician made several TV appearances after unveiling her plans in the Autumn Budget, speaking on programmes such as Good Morning Britain, Sky News and even GB News with presenters Stephen Dixon and Ellie Costello. However, when the Chancellor continued her media rounds over the weekend, she chose not to appear on Tominey's show. The presenter, 47, was instead joined by Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray, whom she immediately pressed on the Chancellor's absence.

She said: "Mr Murray it's lovely to see you. It's great to see you as ever because you often come in here and take one for the team, but where's the Chancellor?" The politician responded: "Well the Chancellor's been giving some other interviews this morning and she'll be working today as she does every day of the week." Unable to mask her frustration, Tominey snapped back: "It's unbelievable isn't it that in the nearly three years I've done this show, she hasn't once appeared?"

Attempting to avoid the question, Murray quipped: "I hope you like having me on the show."

Tominey retorted: "I do but it's a really critical weekend, isn't it? GB News listeners and viewers pay tax. They've now been saddled with ever higher bills, seemingly on the basis of a lie."

Not holding back, she issued a scathing question to the Labour minister: "What was the bigger con? The Chancellor's CV or this Budget?"

Murray immediately defended the Chancellor, explaining that Labour's aim with the Budget was to reduce the cost of living, cut NHS waiting lists, and bring down government borrowing.

Tensions reached a boiling point later in the interview when Tominey accused Labour of breaching its manifesto by raising taxes on working people.

When Murray repeatedly denied this, a shocked Tominey responded: "What? Are you for real? You told the people in the Labour manifesto that you were only going to put taxes up by 8.5 billion. You've actually, between the last Budget and this Budget, put it up by 66 billion including 26 on Wednesday. And you're telling me you didn't breach the manifesto?"

He responded: "We are asking working people to make a contribution."

Tominey hit back: "So you are taxing working people? So you've broken the manifesto?"

Doubling down on his claims, Murray said: "No. Let me explain this really clearly. What the Chancellor was really up front about is that we are asking everyone to make a contribution through the extension of the freezes to thresholds. But we were also clear that we're keeping the tax burden on working people as low as we possibly can."

Tominey branded his words "an extraordinary fudge" as she refused to accept that Labour did not break its manifesto.