Labour is set to take aim at hard-working savers

AFTER a year of Labour misrule, it’s difficult to see how it could get much worse. Don’t speak too soon. Shortly Rachel Reeves’ second autumn Budget will be upon us.

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Last autumn, she introduced the family farm tax, the NI and winter fuel grabs and more, driven by the need to claw back the oft-cited “£22billion black hole”.

The Chancellor’s next Budget will if anything be worse, targeting the hardest workers in a massive tax take estimated to tally between £10billion and £20billion.