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Rachel Reeves’s second budget needs a narrative of fairness to justify tax rises | Heather Stewart

The chancellor should reach for the language of solidarity and social justice that this government tends to recoil fromRachel Reeves’s difficult second budget on 26 November risks landing as badly as last year’s winter fuel cut, unless she can tell a compelling story about who should bear the cost of the “renewal” that Labour has promised.The chancellor’s conference speech last week, received with standing ovations by the party faithful, made a powerful case for investment against austerity, and for Labour – not Reform – as the real workers’ party. Continue reading...

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