The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her keynote speech at the Labour Party conference against a difficult economic backdrop. With a “black hole” in the public finances to fill, and more financial pressure on the horizon, speculation has been mounting that Reeves will break her pledge not to raise taxes. We asked four writers for The i Paper how worried they should be about the Chancellor raising taxes.

Kitty Donaldson: Tax rises are on their way

Chancellor Rachel Reeves had one job: to convince Labour’s disgruntled grassroots that her economic programme can undermine the populist right, without risking her reputation for fiscal prudence.

Labour is already trying to frame the next election as a contest between a moderate Labour and extremist Nigel Farage – what Sir Keir Starme

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