Stride attacks plans as the 'spend now, tax later review'

RACHEL Reeves will flick through a “Corbynist catalogue” of tax rises ahead of this year’s budget, the Conservatives have warned.

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Ms Reeves denied the Treasury would produce a “repeat” of last October's budget and said the Government had “already drawn a line under the Tory mismanagement”.

But shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride, pictured right, told MPs that Wednesday's spending review was a “fantasy” and “not worth the paper that it is written on”.

Responding to Ms Reeves's spending plans, the Conservative frontbencher told the Commons: “This is the spend now, tax later review, because (the Chancellor) knows she will need to come back here in the autumn with yet more taxes and a cruel summer of speculation awaits.

“How can we possibly take this Chancellor seriously after the chaos of the last 12 months?”