Reeves refuses to rule out Autumn Budget tax rises

Speaking this morning (4 November) ahead of the Autumn Budget on 26 November, Reeves said as she takes her "decisions on both tax and spend", she will "do what is necessary to protect families from high inflation and interest rates, to protect our public services from a return to austerity, and to ensure that the economy that we hand down to future generations is secure with debt under control". Quizzed on whether she would look to raise taxes, Reeves declined to respond, instead setting out that individual policies will be announced in the Autumn Budget and that "that's not what today i...