Reeves pledged Labour would invest in Britain's 'broken public services' which had been hollowed-out by a decade of Tory austerity.
Rachel Reeves has announced tax rises worth £40bn to repair Britain's 'broken' public services. The Labour Chancellor tore into the Conservatives today in her first Budget statement and accused the previous UK government of harming the NHS through years of austerity. Reeves told MPs: 'The party opposite failed our country. Their austerity broke our National Health Service. Their Brexit deal harmed British businesses.
Reeves claimed the scale of the public spending problems she inherited were worse than previously thought. She said the £22 billion “black hole” left by the Tories in this year’s finances showed they “hid the reality of their public spending plans”, with problems recurring in future years. Ms Reeves also promised to set aside £11.8 billion to compensate those affected by the infected blood scandal and £1.8 billion to compensate victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal.
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