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Who’ll be blamed for Rachel Reeves’s tax hikes?

3 August 2024

9:00 AM

3 August 2024

9:00 AM

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt entered Downing Street with one mission: to clean up the public finances after Liz Truss’s mini-Budget debacle. They posed as the fiscally credible option. All bills would need to be covered, even if the tax burden had to rise. If the Tories were to lose power for being disciplined and truthful, then so be it.

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