Wilfred Frost and Alex Burghart clashed on Sky News this morningSky News’Wilfred Frost brutally tore into a top Conservative MP for framing a hypothetical as fact in an attack on government.Alex Burghart, the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was forced to answer after the Tories bizarrely released a warning to pensioners that Labour were introducing a retirement tax.The press release said the Conservatives were “sounding the alarm over Labour’s retirement tax which is now just 614 days away from coming into effect”.But, as Frost pointed out, the government has not actually announced this policy yet.He said: “I feel like you’ve invented a talking point here. The headline of your press release today, that you’ve just released, you’ve framed it as fact, as if it has already happened.”Burghart tried repeatedly to cut in, but Frost pushed back: “Excuse me, forgive me Mr Burghart. You can come back in a moment, we will give you time to respond.”Frost then pointed out the press release then reveals chancellor
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