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  • 3 years ago
Two protesters disrupted Rachel Reeves' speech at the FT Weekend Festival on Saturday, 2 September, holding a yellow sign saying “'Fund our future” and “Tax wealth now”.This incident happened after the Labour’s shadow chancellor confirmed the party has no plans for reforming Britain’s regressive taxation system.Ms Reeves also told The Telegraph: "I don't see the way to prosperity as being through taxation."The “What could we expect from a Labour government?” also had Camilla Cavendish and John McTernan as speakers.

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00:00 What is my basic concern for the UK population?
00:02 Would you like me to ask Rachel a question about this?
00:04 That's what I've found out, so why don't you sit down?
00:07 Why don't you sit down and I'll ask a question?
00:09 Sit down!
00:10 Please.
00:12 Sit down!
00:14 Sit down!
00:16 Sit down!
00:18 Or do you just want to shout for overviews?
00:20 Do you want to hear what the next possible answer might be?
00:22 No, it's just rules out of love for the UK.
00:25 Well, OK, come on.
00:26 Rachel, what I was going to ask you was
00:28 does the fact that you have ruled out raising wealth taxes
00:31 mean that you are, to borrow a phrase,
00:33 intensely relapsed about the current distribution of wealth in Britain?
00:38 Well, we've got the highest tax burden today
00:40 since the second world war
00:42 and I don't wake up every morning thinking
00:45 how we can introduce new taxes
00:48 and I don't believe the way to take authority is through...
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