Kemi Badenoch launches blistering attack on Rachel Reeves

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Chancellor Rachel Reeves should have the “balls” to admit she has broken the Labour manifesto if she freezes income tax thresholds in Wednesday’s Budget . Mrs Badenoch warned the Chancellor will be a “coward” if she does not acknowledge this is a breach of the manifesto which promised not to increase taxes on working people.

The Conservative leader’s blast comes in the wake of Ms Reeves complaining she is “sick of people mansplaining how to be Chancellor to me”.

Mrs Badenoch said: “ Rachel Reeves has claimed that critics of her chaotic economic mismanagement are 'mansplaining'. Well let me say this: if she freezes income tax thresholds she will, according to her own words in her own Budget speech last year, be breaching the Labour manifesto. And s