Reeves urged to make the case for an income-tax freeze as PM criticises defenders of a ‘failed’ policy

Budget 2025: Reeves urged to 'make the case' for income tax freeze - as PM hits out at defenders of 'failed' policy

Baroness Harman tells the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that she does not think increasing income tax thresholds broke Labour's manifesto. Meanwhile, the prime minister launches a staunch defence of one of the chancellor's big announcements.

Tax reforms announced not enough to deliver the change needed – PCS to the Budget

“The tax reforms announced are still just tweaking the current unfair system which will not generate anywhere near the funding necessary to deliver the transformational change needed in our society.” By the PCS Union PCS welcomes the scrapping of the two-child limit but more must be done on the cost-of-living crisis and to tackle the unfairness of our tax system. Moves in the chancellor’s Budget today to cut energy bills and freeze rail fares ar…

Budget 2025: Reeves urged to 'make the case' for income tax freeze

Rachel Reeves needs to “make the case” to voters that extending the freeze on personal income thresholds was the “fairest” way to increase taxes, Baroness Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Sky News political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the Labour peer said the chancellor needed to explain that her decision would “protect people’s cost of living if they’re on low incomes”. In her budget on Wednesday, Ms Reeves exten…