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Yesterday, Rachel Reeves admitted that as a result of her Budget last week, working people will have to pay more taxes.
This was a basic truth so obvious it was visible from space. Yet, it was also something that until yesterday she had refused to confirm.

In coming clean that working people are going to pay more tax under Labour, Reeves has conceded that she has broken the promise she and Keir Starmer made to get elected.

They promised, repeatedly, that they would not put up taxes on working people.

And at last’s year’s Budget, Reeves doubled down, promising that she wouldn’t come back for more taxes – that promise didn’t last long either.

But while she might have been honest about hiking taxes yesterday, Rachel Reeves is still refusing to come clean about why she called a press conference on 4 November to warn about the state of the economy, when she’d actually been told things were much better than feared.

The Chancellor and her allies told us at the time that they cut into breakfast TV schedules to ruin our Cheerios because the financial forecasts had got worse.

But in the days since the budget, documents published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) have shown that the Chancellor knew she was going to have more money available to her, not less.

At the same time as she was receiving these forecasts, she was giving doom-laden speeches about fiscal blackholes, and her colleagues were telling journalists that the numbers were getting worse.

On the face of it this looks not just like lying, but market manipulation.

If a CEO of a publicly-listed company had misled investors about the state of their internal finances, they’d be under serious scrutiny.

This is why my Shadow Chancellor, Sir Mel Stride, has written to the City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority asking them to investigate.

It seems clear that Rachel Reeves deliberately sought to mislead the public. And on top of breaking her promise not to raise tax on working people, and then breaking her promise not to “come back for more”, it’s another reason why it’s time for her to resign.

If Reeves had any decency she would have gone by now.

And if she won’t go, Keir Starmer should grow a backbone and sack her. If you agree, please sign our petition at sackreeves.com – because honestly should mean something in politics.

At the Budget, Starmer and Reeves could have cut spending and cut tax. Instead they hiked tax on working people to pay for more benefits.

Every party in British politics is now committed to increasing welfare spending, other the Conservative Party.

Labour, Lib Dems, Reform – they all want higher benefits.
So there’s now a clear choice in British politics and there’s only one party with a plan for a stronger economy.

That’s the Conservatives and we will cut spending, cut tax, back business and get Britain working again.