Speaker Lindsay Hoyle berates Rishi Sunak for briefing on budget details

Hoyle says past chancellors would have resigned for riding roughshod' over MPs with pre-speech briefings

Past chancellors would have resigned for revealing details of the budget before the official statement, the Commons Speaker has told MPs, expressing fury at the briefing of a slew of measures to be announced on Wednesday.

In a veiled reference to the former Labour chancellor Hugh Dalton, who resigned after telling a journalist about tax changes just before his 1947 budget, Lindsay Hoyle accused the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, of riding roughshod" over MPs.