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UK Budget: Chancellor Reeves Announces £40B in Tax Rises

UK Budget: Chancellor Reeves Announces $52B£40B in Tax Rises

Above: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves holds the red Budget box outside 11 Downing Street ahead of the announcement of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review in the House of Commons in London on Oct. 30, 2024. Image copyright: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images

The Spin

Labour's socialist budget exposes Reeves and Keir Starmer for their continued misleading of the British public. Having promised a changed party during the general election, Labour has returned to its high-spending, high-borrowing, high-taxation dogma that history has shown to fail time and time again. This anti-business and anti-growth approach will not succeed.

Albeit unpopular for the wealthy who will have to fork the bills, Reeves's budget is a strong and fair approach to finally putting the working people of Britain first. Having left the state of the UK's finances in disrepair after 14 years of self-centered short-termism, the Conservative Party has little right to complain about the painful yet necessary decisions made by the new government.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 70% chance that the UK will have a Labour prime minister on Jan. 1, 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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