POLL OF THE DAY: Should Rachel Reeves apologise for elevating taxes within the Budget regardless of promising to not?
- Cast your vote on the biggest talking points of the day, every day at 12pm
- Final results will be announced in tomorrow’s poll
Rachel Reeves has been berated for betraying her vows to working people as she insisted her monster £30billion Budget tax rise was the ‘absolute minimum’ possible.
The Chancellor was challenged by Susanna Reid on ITV on how anyone could ‘believe anything you say’ as she toured broadcast studios defending her raid.
Ms Reeves insisted she ‘had’ to impose more pain on the country in yesterday’s announcement even though the Treasury’s own watchdog only told her there was a £6billion hole in the public finances – and huge sums are being splurged on benefits.
She blamed Brexit and Trump’s tariffs as she wriggled on whether it broke Labour‘s manifesto, claiming that document only committed to not changing tax ‘rates’.
When Ms Reid confronted her on Good Morning Britain, Ms Reeves replied: ‘I am Chancellor in the world as it is and not in the world as I might like it to be.’
Now, take the Daily Mail’s latest poll to have your say on whether the Chancellor should apologise for raising taxes in the Budget despite the pledge.
Yesterday’s post-Budget poll of Daily Mail readers showed two thirds back Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and would want Donald Trump as leader
