Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer were going to raise income tax despite their manifesto pledge - Financial Times now reports that they have abandoned those ideas after a backlash from Labour MP's. As Fosse stated on the previous page, I thought they would just change the personal allowances, not sure if that is an option for consideration in the alternative budget plans.
Labour are imprisoned by their manifesto. It was so conservative and weak they have no room for maneuver. This is perplexing tbh because the Tories were so unpopular Labour could have had some real changes in that manifesto and got in anyway.
