Reeves confirms Spring Statement won’t include tax increases

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms there won’t be tax increases as she prepares to deliver the Spring Statement.      Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00No, this is not a budget. It's an update on the forecast from the Office of Budget Responsibility.

00:06So there won't be tax increases at the Spring Statement this week. I promised to deliver

00:11just one budget per year and made the decisions that we needed to make in October to put the

00:16public finances on a firm footing and also to ensure that we had the money for frontline

00:21public services, particularly the NHS, at the budget. So we'll be updating on the forecast,

00:26continuing to meet the fiscal rules, but no tax increases.

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