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Kemi Badenoch is set to urge the Prime Minister to sack Rachel Reeves if she hikes taxes at next month’s Budget.

At a pre-Budget rally marking a year since the Chancellor’s first fiscal event, the Tory leader will demand that Ms Reeves “get the axe if she puts up tax”.

Before the rally, Mrs Badenoch said: “Nobody voted for high taxes and out-of-control spending, but that’s what they’re getting from this weak Prime Minister.

“After her Budget last year, Rachel Reeves promised she was ‘not coming back with… more taxes’. But now that looks like a lie as she is gearing up to impose more punishing tax hikes.”

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride, who is also expected to address the rally, added: “My message to Sir Keir is simple: if Rachel Reeves breaks her promise again, she must go.”