Baker’s sorry to MPs over Treasury slur
BREXIT minister Steve Baker has apologised for misleading MPs over claims civil servants were scheming to keep us in the customs union.
Mr Baker admitted he should have dismissed a claim by Jacob Rees-Mogg that a thinktank boss had said the Treasury had “a model” to make figures show staying in was the best option.
Audio of the conversation with Charles Grant revealed that to be wrong.
Mr Baker told MPs: “I should have corrected or dismissed the premise of my honourable friend’s question.”
Mr Rees-Mogg said he still had “suspicions” about “bonkers” Treasury figures.