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Cabinet minister Heidi Alexander told what is “front and centre of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ mind” as she considers a range of tax rises and possible spending cuts.

Transport Secretary Ms Alexander stressed that one of the Labour Chancellor’s key aims was to protect workers on “modest” incomes, which immediately left open the door for millions of higher income tax payers to be hit with bigger levies in the November 26 Budget.

Geographically, London and the South East appeared to be facing having to bear the biggest burden of Ms Reeves’ looming tax rises given that she appea

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