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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

Reeves will have to raise taxes, charge for the NHS or ditch pensions triple lock, warns IMF

Rachel Reeves has been given her strongest warning yet that she will have to break a key party manifesto pledge by hiking taxes, introduce charges to use the NHS, or drop the triple lock guarantee on the state pension.

The beleaguered chancellor raised taxes by £40bn in her first Budget last year, partly to fund record new investment in the NHS.

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