Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Yesterday in Parliament podcast.

On Monday the 7th of July, ministers face questions about how their figures would add up after last week's U-turn on welfare cuts.

Last week was a bruising one for the government with that labour uprising over welfare cuts and the big last-minute U-turn from the government.

As a new week dawned, the shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride didn't intend to let bygones be bygones.

He'd come to the comments to demand that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves explain how she was now going to balance the books, according to her own rules,

since all the recent U-turns totted up to around £6 billion.

Rachel Reeves was not there herself.

Instead, her deputy, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, had come along to say he wasn't going to say anything.

As the Shadow Chancellor knows, it is a long-standing

convention of this and previous governments not to provide a running commentary on a fiscal

forecast. However, Darren Jones said the government was committed to sticking to its self-imposed

guardrails or fiscal rules and we'd have to wait till the budget in the autumn for anything more.

Sir Mel Stride was not impressed.

A government divided, a government racking up unfunded spending, a government wrecking the public finances.

And why is the Chief Secretary not prepared to explain how they will fund these U-turns?

Well, there are surely only two possible answers, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Either the Treasury had made them without a clue as to how they will be funded,

or they do know but are refusing to tell us.

Either is completely unacceptable.

Well, Darren Jones still gave no more details,

preferring instead to talk repeatedly about what had happened when

Liz Truss was Prime Minister. Members opposite may be chuntering from their sedentary positions,

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