- Ms Reeves told BBC she was ‘going through all of the government documents’
Rachel Reeves yesterday refused to say how she would fund Labour’s spending plans following the Chancellor’s slashing of taxes for workers.
The shadow chancellor insisted she needed time to ‘identify the funding streams’ to ensure her sums add up after backing the cut to national insurance.
Labour had its guns spiked by Jeremy Hunt‘s decision to change the non-domiciled tax regime to raise billions of pounds to fund tax cuts.
It has left Ms Reeves with a £2billion hole, as she had earmarked the money from the non-dom change to pay for school breakfast clubs and NHS appointments.
The shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) insisted she needed time to ‘identify the funding streams’
Labour had its guns spiked by Jeremy Hunt’s (pictured) decision to change the non-domiciled tax regime
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott (pictured) accused Labour of having ‘no plan’,
She told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that she was still ‘going through all of the Government documents to identify the funding stream to honour those commitments’.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott accused Labour of having ‘no plan’, and warned that the party would ‘take us back to square one with higher taxes’.
Ms Reeves did, however, confirm that Labour was committed to deputy leader Angela Rayner’s plans to extend workers’ rights – including banning zero-hour contracts. She also said she would keep Mr Hunt’s capital gains tax cut to the sale of second homes, adding that she would not scrap measures that bring in revenue.
Ms Reeves admitted yesterday to pilfering leftover pastries from business meetings so she can give them to her team.
She told Laura Kuenssberg: ‘We ask whether we can take them back to the office and share them with colleagues,’ adding: ‘I don’t like any waste.’
