Chancellor defends his tax rises and delayed spending cuts, saying it is a plan to bring down inflation

The shadow chancellor was also out and about this morning to lay out Labour’s alternative to Tory budget plans.

Rachel Reeves told BBC Breakfast Labour would tax “the better off to pay more to ease that pressure on ordinary people”.

The most important thing is to grow the economy because that is the way to lift living standards for everybody.

“And what we saw in the numbers yesterday was that living standards are going to fall by the biggest amount for more than 70 years.

Chancellor defends his tax rises and delayed spending cuts, saying it is a plan to bring down inflationThe shadow chancellor was also out and about this morning to lay out Labour’s alternative to Tory budget plans. Rachel Reeves told BBC Breakfast Labour would tax “the better off to pay more to ease that pressure on ordinary people”.The most important thing is to grow the economy because that is the way to lift living standards for everybody.“And what we saw in the numbers yesterday was that living standards are going to fall by the biggest amount for more than 70 years. Continue reading…