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Media Coverage
The story is popular for both left and right media – both with distinct takes on the upcoming Budget.
Online the story features at the top of the website and has dipped in and out of popularity on social media as the morning progressed.
Trending – Budget to fix a broken but not beaten NHS
Most of Tuesday’s front pages speculate on tomorrow’s budget with a particular focus on how the budget will improve the national health service and the potential for further tax rises.
Basic Facts
- Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce her budget tomorrow
- NHS expected to get boost to cut waiting times
- Most tax hikes have already been announced – but the PM won’t rule out future hikes
The reaction
Many of the papers lead on the NHS and the budget. For the left-leaning press news of money going into the national health service is to be celebrated – with several publications noting the investment is the ‘first in 14 years’ claiming the previous Conservative governments have neglected the NHS.
The right-leaning media has a more sceptical tone, reporting that the boost won’t be enough to fix all the problems facing the health service, and reporting the prime minister refused to rule out more tax hikes in the future.
Some of the right-leaning press look at other hikes expected in the budget. They cover how the budget will impact the elderly and the middle class – the publications’ key demographics.
The front pages
Trending on social media
What are users saying on Twitter/X?
Read the Tweets!
It may be just a £1 increase in the bus fare from £2 to £3 but that is an extra £506 a year that the average person who uses the bus to get to and from work will now have to pay. Labour the party of the working people? #StarmerOut
— Moriarty (@MoriartyProfJ23) October 28, 2024
Exactly what Labour is doing in our politics!
— Robert Brown (@Ro6ert8rown) October 29, 2024
throwing people on the ground and shouting at them for any objection they make!
we will soon see #RachelReeves shouting at you while you are on the ground due to her tax rise!#RBCnews #StarmerOut #LabourAreDangerous #BBUK pic.twitter.com/lxLA2f9nCH
So let me get this straight. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not actually an Economist, and her previous career was basically handling customer complaints at Halifax? Jesus fucking Christ, this can’t be real. #RachelReeves https://t.co/q7vsGlKZ6M
— Sienna Spiller (@SSpiller4751) October 24, 2024
The arrogance and hypocrisy of Truss and Farage is off the scale.
— Magapanthus Smith (@magapanthus) October 23, 2024