Brexit minister David Davis rekindled a debate about the credibility of the government's own forecasts by saying on Thursday that every economic prediction on the British economy since the EU referendum has been wrong. In the same debate in parliament, the junior Brexit minister Steve Baker suggested government officials had deliberately developed negative economic models in order to influence Brexit policy. "One of the ways it has been proven wrong is because employment in this country has grown despite the forecasts to record levels today. A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said junior minister Baker had her full support despite being accused of maligning government officials for the second time in a week. Baker suggested government officials may be undermining government policy by calibrating their work to show only the downside of Brexit.

Source: dna February 01, 2018 16:52 UTC