The public back higher taxes for better services – Reeves must be made to listen
MOST people want the government to prioritise the crises across our public services in its Budget next week.
Research shows they are — rightly — unconvinced by the need for Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s “fiscal rules,” which risk starving the public sector of funding.
This gives ministers — reported last week to be appealing to Keir Starmer over the scale of planned cuts to their departments — an argument that Reeves needs to change course.
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