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![afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::136004952.png) Andrew Neil [@afneil](/creator/twitter/afneil) on x 1.2M followers
Created: 2025-07-05 17:40:52 UTC

On Friday Chancellor Reeves was asked if she’d guarantee she wouldn’t raise taxes as a result of the welfare reform surrender. ‘I’m not going to,’ she replied ‘because it would be irresponsible for a Chancellor to do that.’
Yet last November she told the CBI: ‘I’m really clear: I’m not coming back with more borrowing or more taxes.’
So by her own lights she was ‘irresponsible’ in November.
More important, another round of tax rises is effectively baked into the Autumn Budget.
It’s a crying shame.

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