{"id":271941,"date":"2025-11-19T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271941\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:37:08","slug":"labours-budget-is-already-unravelling-kemi-badenoch-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271941\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour’s Budget is already unravelling, Kemi Badenoch says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Describing the situation as a “shambles”, Badenoch accused the government of floating the idea of increasing income tax rates only to “U-turn”.<\/p>\n

“This is the first Budget to unravel before it’s even been delivered,” she told the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

“The chancellor’s cluelessness, I’m afraid, is damaging the economy now.”<\/p>\n

Badenoch also highlighted comments from the chancellor in her Budget last year<\/a>, when Reeves said: “I am keeping every single promise on tax that I made in our manifesto”, adding that she would not extend the freeze on income tax and National Insurance thresholds because this “would hurt working people”.<\/p>\n

The Tory leader asked the PM to confirm the government would not break this promise and continue the freeze on income tax thresholds.<\/p>\n

But Sir Keir dodged the question, only saying the Budget would focus on cutting NHS waiting lists, debt and the cost-of-living.<\/p>\n

“What we won’t do is inflict austerity on the country as they did. What we won’t do is inflict a borrowing spree like [Conservative prime minister] Liz Truss did,” he added.<\/p>\n

In response, Badenoch said it was “quite clear” the government was planning to freeze thresholds.<\/p>\n

“If [the chancellor] breaks such a clear promise, how can the public trust a word that she says next week?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Describing the situation as a “shambles”, Badenoch accused the government of floating the idea of increasing income tax…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-271941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}