There are just sixteen days to go until the Budget – and the pitch is being well and truly rolled. Having conducted her ‘I can’t talk about that’ press conference last week, the Chancellor has now done an interview with 5Live to drop a few more hints about the truly Awful Statement she is planning in a fortnight’s time. That sound you can hear is the rich and mobile fleeing this country…

The big question about her second Budget is whether Reeves intends to break her 16-month-old pledge not to raise income tax, VAT or National Insurance. The answer, increasingly, appears to be ‘yes’, with the Chancellor informing the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on Friday that a rise in personal taxation is one of the ‘major measures’ that she will announce later this month.

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