Budget situation is ‘desperate’, Reeves told as experts say she must raise big taxes

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Rachel Reeves has been warned by some of the country’s leading economists that she has no choice but to raise major taxes and reform others at the Budget if she is to turn Britain’s “desperate” economic situation around.