Leak overshadows UK Labour's agenda reset with tax-heavy budget

BRITAIN's unpopular center-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative on Wednesday with a tax-raising budget that it hopes will boost economic growth, reduce child poverty and ease cost-of-living pressures.

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But the chaos that has engulfed the government during weeks of mixed messaging and political infighting continued up to the final moment. The entire contents of the budget were leaked half an hour before Treasury chief Rachel Reeves delivered the budget statement in the House of Commons.