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The public back higher taxes for better services – Reeves must be made to listen
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes her keynote speech during the International Investment Summit in London, which brings together up to 300 industry leaders to boost investment in Britain, October 14, 2024
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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