The chancellor she had made choices to increase taxes and improve public infrastructure, and had ‘chosen to protect public spending’
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The chancellor she had made choices to increase taxes and improve public infrastructure, and had ‘chosen to protect public spending’
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Rachel Reeves has defended her £26bn Budget tax raid as “fair and necessary”, insisting the wealthy should share more of the economic “burden”.
Badenoch claims chancellor ‘lied to the public to justify record tax hikes’ and was ‘bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin’
The Chancellor increased taxes by £26 billion in November’s Budget
The chancellor has unveiled £26bn worth of tax rises in the Commons as she attempts to plug a multi-billion pound gap in…
As Rachel Reeves prepares her first Budget and warns of ‘painful decisions’ ahead, debate is growing over whether she should…
Chancellor breaks cover to set out Budget priorities in unusual move
Chancellor warns ‘we will all have to contribute’ to fixing Britain’s public finances
