Britain’s leftist government won the national elections last year on a pledge for no new taxes on working people but now refusing to rule out tax rises, claiming “the world has changed” and stating manifesto promises are only good until “decisions” are taken.
Britain’s perpetually embattled Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rachel Reeves gave the clearest indications yet that her election-time promise not to hike taxes for the public is not to survive in her marathon 45-minute Labour Party Conference speech on Monday
Her party had pledged to voters in its manifesto (platform) last year that “Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, income tax or VAT”, but
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