Rachel Reeves has just confirmed the 16 month-old Labour manifesto has been fed through the shredder. Your taxes are going up – again…
Speaking to Matt Chorley on Radio 5 Live, Reeves said:
“It would of course be possible to stick to the manifesto commitments but that would require things like deep cuts in capital spending and the reason our productivity and growth has been so poor in recent years is because governments have always taken the easy option.”
She also made noises about scrapping the two-child benefit cap entirely: “… we will take action on child poverty. The last Labour government proudly reduced child poverty, and we will reduce child poverty as well“. Here’s a reminder of what the Chancellor had to say about that inconvenient manifesto promise, both before and after the general election…
