Rachel accused of lying as OBR admits there was no need for tax increases
The Chancellor has been accused of lying to the British public as the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said there was no need for the soaring tax increases which will impact millions of voters.
In September the OBR told Rachel Reeves that this alleged “black hole” is in fact £2.5 billion and by 31 October it went up to £4.2 billion.
Reeves has played the blame game insisting there is a black hole and “asked” Brits to do their bit to pay £30 billion in record high tax hikes, however, the OBR has said there was no need for this.
The Chancellor told Brits and MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday whilst delivering her Autumn Budget that a series of new taxes is needed to cover the massive deficit that she alleges she was left with to offset giving those on benefits street a pay rise.
Conservative MP Neil O’Brien blasted the revelation, saying: “She lied so that she could produce ‘better than expected’ numbers and say rates were not going up as a budget ‘rabbit’.”
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William Yarwood, spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “Reeves blamed Brexit. She blamed the Tories. She blamed global instability. But she lied.
“These tax rises happened because Rachel Reeves wanted to spend more money, mainly on welfare, in order to appease her backbenchers, all at the expense of ordinary taxpayers.”
Last night Labour MP Richard Burgon said the his party’s workers rights U-turn is a “clear breach of the manifesto.”
He said, “The removal of day one rights on unfair dismissal is bad enough in itself. But big business and the powerful anti-workers’ rights brigade will have scented blood and they’ll now be pushing to dilute this legislation further.
“With multiple consultations still underway on how this legislation will be implemented, the entire Labour movement will need to stay absolutely vigilant to stop any further backsliding.”
The general secretary of Unite the union, Sharon Graham, told Sky News, “It’s not just day one rights. I mean, there has been a catalogue of watering down of the Employment Rights Bill.
“Fire and rehire is not banned, zero hour contracts are no longer banned, and now we have this move on day one, right.
“This was a manifesto promise, and so the issue here is one of trust.”
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch fumed, “On Monday, I told a conference of Britain’s biggest businesses that Labour’s day one employment rights policy would destroy jobs and drag our country backwards.
“Four days later, and in the aftermath of their disastrous budget, Starmer and Reeves have finally woken up to just how bad these policies actually are.
“This is yet another humiliating U-turn. Labour talk about stability, but govern in chaos. No company can plan, invest or hire with this level of uncertainty hanging over them.”
