Voices: Labour were right to break their promise on taxes – we should all be paying more
That is what people knew they were voting for: higher taxes and better public services under Labour, or higher taxes (possibly not quite as high) and worse public services under the Tories. They chose the Labour option, and when you strip away all the noise around the Budget, that is what they got.
Tax threshold freeze not a pledge-breaker - Labour sources
Government sources insist the move would not constitute a breach of Labour's manifesto tax pledge.
Rachel Reeves expected to prolong personal tax threshold freeze beyond 2028
UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to prolong a freeze on personal tax thresholds beyond 2028 in a “stealth” tax move that could raise £7bn a year and help plug a £40bn fiscal shortfall. Government officials said Reeves was looking to lengthen the freeze — announced in 2021 under the Conservatives but due to expire in 2028 — in what will be seen as a covert rise in income tax.
Budget 2024 latest: Labour insists income tax threshold freeze would not break manifesto pledge
Reeves' plan for 'freeze on tax thresholds' and 'Cheryl's heartache' over Liam
Rachel Reeves could freeze the income tax threshold from 2028, according to several papers, while others splash on the aftermath of Liam Payne's death.
Rachel Reeves ‘to freeze income tax thresholds’ past 2028
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Saudi Arabia arrested over 21,900 last week in residency and labour operations
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Labour tiptoes nervously towards a China policy
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