Reeves: PM and I decided ‘as a team’ not to hike income tax

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Rachel Reeves said she and Sir Keir Starmer had decided “as a team” not to raise income tax as she hit out at “too many leaks” in the run-up to the Budget.The Chancellor told MPs the “very close partnership” between herself and the Prime Minister meant the move to extend a freeze on tax thresholds instead had been made jointly.

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00:00I'm absolutely categorical that that was not an authorised briefing.

00:05It was incredibly damaging and frustrating.

00:08That is why we have a leak inquiry.

00:10It was not a briefing that was signed off by me, any of my ministers or officials.

00:17It was unacceptable. That is why there is a leak inquiry going on.

00:21The Prime Minister and I met two, three times a week during the budget process.

00:28That is not always the case between Chancellors and Prime Ministers, I recognise that.

00:33But there is a very close partnership between myself and the Prime Minister.

00:37And so we took him through all of the numbers and all of the options

00:42and we decided it together as a team because that is what the Prime Minister and I am.

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