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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Budget 2024: Chancellor Rachel Reeves gambles billions on RED with tax and borrowing rises to rebuild Britain

Rachel Reeves was on Wednesday gambling tens of billions of pounds in higher taxes and borrowing in Labour’s Budget to ‘rebuild Britain’.

Less than four months into Government, the Chancellor was due to unveil her first Budget which has already sparked a huge debate over her tax, borrow and spend blueprint.

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