Conservatives tell Labour MPs: Don’t betray your pledge not to raise taxes
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The Conservatives will today [Wednesday 12 November] offer Labour
MPs the chance to stand by their manifesto pledge not to raise
taxes. The Conservatives will use one of their two Opposition Day
debates to address the elephant in the room: Rachel Reeves is
plotting to hike taxes at the Budget, breaking her promise to the
public. No one voted for higher taxes in the last election but
under Labour that's what we're getting. Reeves herself made the
promise over 30 times, she...Request free trial
The Conservatives will today [Wednesday 12 November] offer Labour MPs the chance to stand by their manifesto pledge not to raise taxes. The Conservatives will use one of their two Opposition Day debates to address the elephant in the room: Rachel Reeves is plotting to hike taxes at the Budget, breaking her promise to the public. No one voted for higher taxes in the last election but under Labour that's what we're getting. Reeves herself made the promise over 30 times, she said she would not come back for more, she said that was “an absolute commitment” and that the management of the economy “is now on us.” So with two weeks to go until one of the most dreaded Budgets in modern times, Labour MPs will have the opportunity to send a clear signal to her – that the country and working families in their constituencies cannot afford another tax raid. Labour lack the backbone to take the tough decisions necessary to fix our economy and get Britain working. If Rachel Reeves got spending under control, there would be no need to send taxes up again. But instead she is stuck in a tax, spend and borrow doom loop – and ordinary people are paying the price for her failure. The Conservatives have set out a £47 billion savings plan to get spending under control, including cuts to welfare, the civil service and foreign aid. In line with the party's new Economic Golden Rule, for every pound saved, at least half will go to cutting the deficit, with the remainder being used to get our economy moving. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, in contrast, have failed to show the backbone to make the savings needed to prevent tax rises. Meanwhile their tax hikes have driven unemployment and inflation up and flatlined growth. Labour MPs should take this chance to force a change of course, honour the promises they made to the country at the election and save the public from more economic misery - by getting spending under control. Sir Mel Stride MP, Shadow Chancellor, said: “Today we will give Labour MPs a chance to vote for the promises which their own government made to the British people. If they fail to stand by their own promises, how can the public trust a word they say again? “Rachel Reeves promised not to raise tax, and then she did. She promised she wouldn't be coming back for more, and now she's planning to do just that. “Thanks to her economic mismanagement, inflation, unemployment and borrowing are all up and growth is anaemic – and things are about to get worse as Reeves reaches into people's pockets yet again. “Nobody voted for this. Labour are stuck in an economic doom loop because Reeves and Starmer lack the backbone to get spending under control. Only the Conservatives will make the savings needed to cut taxes and deliver a stronger economy.” ENDS Notes to Editors Britain under Labour is living beyond its means, locked in a doom loop of high spend, high debt and higher taxes:
After an appalling response to her Autumn Budget, Rachel Reeves made an ‘absolute commitment' she would ‘not [be] coming back with… more taxes':
However, Rachel Reeves is preparing to raise taxes once again because she lacks the backbone to make difficult decisions:
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