Rachel Reeves claims £66bn tax raid made UK 'stronger'

£66bn in tax rises, a five-year unemployment high and Reeves says Britain should thank her - London Business News

Rachel Reeves has defended her £ 66bn programme of tax increases, insisting Britain would have faced higher borrowing costs, weaker public finances, and more expensive mortgages had she not imposed… The post £66bn in tax rises, a five-year unemployment high and Reeves says Britain should thank her appeared first on London Business News

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Rachel Reeves insists £66billion tax rises left Britain better off

Rachel Reeves says £66billion tax rises left Britain better off . Rachel Reeves has insisted Britain would have been worse off without the £66billion of tax rises introduced during her time as chancellor

Rachel Reeves claims £66bn tax raid made UK 'stronger'

Rachel Reeves has launched a defence over her two tax-heavy Budgets, claiming they enabled a “stronger fiscal buffer” and shifted the “tax system towards rewarding work”. In her first major speech since been ousted as Chancellor, Reeves said she made “difficult choices” that were “not without controversy” but defended them as helping end the UK’s [...]