The Chancellor made the quip as he prepares to reveal how he plans to start balancing the UK's books and recover from the pandemic in his spending review on Wednesday. But in the interview ahead of his spending review on Wednesday, he mentioned Rocky, an elf-on-the-shelf toy who comes out every December to make sure his two children are behaving. Today, in an interview with Times Radio, he stressed: 'The credit card thing was very much a joke. However, the two men are known to have clashed over the best way out of the coronavirus economic quagmire. The Institute for Fiscal Studies previously warned £40billion would need to be raised through taxes and spending cuts in order to pay back the cash.

Source: The Nation November 22, 2020 15:00 UTC