Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced tax rises amounting to £26 billion after a downgrade in forecast economic growth.

More than 1.7 million people will face paying more income tax after thresholds were frozen.

Ms Reeves acknowledged the freeze in tax thresholds would hit “working people” – the group Labour had promised to protect – but she was “asking everyone to make a contribution”.

In an unprecedented blunder, full details of the Chancellor’s plans were published by the Office for Budget Responsibility more than half an hour before she stood up in the Commons chamber.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said the Budget was a “total humiliation” for Rachel Reeves and “if she had any decency she would resign”.

Details of the Budget were revealed early when the Office for Budget Responsibili

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