Closing the UK’s tax gap is ‘not rocket science’, says Rachel Reeves

Reeves also said Labour would close ‘loopholes’ left by the government in its plans to change the rules on non-dom tax status. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said proposals to close the tax gap to fill a hole in her spending plans are not “rocket science”.

Reeves was forced to respond after Jeremy Hunt used his budget to adopt some of Labour’s revenue-raising policies to fund his pre-election cut in national insurance.