With a reported £40bn hole in the public finances to plug, increases in the tax burden appear increasingly likely when Rachel Reeves presents her first budget next week, but the prime minister did not confirm any rises as he left the Commonwealth summit.
Is the prime minister declaring war on middle Britain in his definition of a working person and did he mislead the public in his manifesto by giving no inkling of the tens of tens of billions of pounds of tax rises happening in Wednesday's budget? Sir Keir Starmer's emphatic answer to both of these questions at his closing news conference at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa was 'no'.
👉 Click here to follow Electoral Dysfunction wherever you get your podcasts 👈 He would argue that it was only after Labour lifted the bonnet on the public finances in power that he saw the extent of the damage.
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