It seems clear that Rachel Reeves has misled the public

YESTERDAY, Rachel Reeves admitted that as a result of her Budget last week, working people will have to pay more taxes.

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This was a basic truth so obvious it was visible from space. Yet, it was also something that until yesterday she had refused to confirm.

In coming clean that working people are going to pay more tax under Labour, Reeves has conceded that she has broken the promise she and Keir Starmer made to get elected.

They promised, repeatedly, that they would not put up taxes on working people. And at last's year's Budget, Reeves doubled down, promising that she wouldn't come back for more taxes that promise didn't last long either.

Manipulation

But while she might have been honest about hiking taxes yesterday, Rachel Reeves is still refusing to come clean about why she called a press conference on November 4 to warn about the state of the economy, when she'd actually been told things were much better than feared.

The Chancellor and her allies told us at the time that they cut into breakfast TV schedules to ruin our Cheerios because the financial forecasts had got worse.