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<\/p>\nShadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride has declared it time for Rachel Reeves to “step aside” if her Budget burdens higher taxes on hardworking Britons, including pensioners. <\/p>\n
Speaking on the Camilla Tominey Show, Sir Mel ripped into Ms Reeves as the countdown for her Commons statement is on.<\/p>\n
His calls for the Chancellor has chimed with a multitude of voices urging the Chancellor to leave No11 if she were to slap more taxes on Britons.<\/p>\n
“Well, I know you’ve been urging me, Camilla, to be saying this for a very long time because I don’t think you should run around constantly asking for everybody to resign over everything,” he prefaced, speaking to GB News.<\/p>\n
“But I think if we’ve reached the point where this Government in opposition made a lot of very clear commitments, including in their manifesto, then promptly junked a lot of them and did different things in office. <\/p>\n
“She has now arrived at a point where, once again, we are led to believe they will be putting up taxes on hardworking people, which is something that they’ve said they wouldn’t do then. <\/p>\n
“I think it’s time for her to step aside, I’m afraid.”<\/p>\n
Asked when Ms Reeves should bow out, Sir Mel referred the decision for “others to think about”. <\/p>\n
However, he added: “I think a position does finally become untenable if you go into a General Election saying that you’re not going to put up taxes on hardworking people, then do that.<\/p>\n
“Because that’s what National Insurance on employers actually did back in October of last year. <\/p>\n
“Then you have an emergency budget in the spring, in March, and you say that’s it. End of. We’re not going to be coming back for more. <\/p>\n
“And then another six months later, that appears to be exactly what you’re going to do.<\/p>\n
Rachel Reeves will deliver the Budget on November 2026<\/p>\n
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“I’m afraid there is a limit, I think, to everybody’s patience in those circumstances.”<\/p>\n
Ms Reeves’ potential resignation would cause further upheaval on Downing Street, with Sir Keir Starmer riddled with rumours of leadership plots to oust him from No10. <\/p>\n
The party war broke out after allies insisted the Prime Minister would fend off any leadership threat, with plenty pointing fingers at Health Secretary Wes Streeting, disgraced ex-deputy Angela Rayner and Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham. <\/p>\n
The Chancellor received a number of calls to hang up her hat if she were to raise income tax after vowing to not raise the key taxes ahead of the General Election. <\/p>\n
Last month, Ms Reeves was seen to be laying the ground to hike up income tax in an unprecedented pre-Budget briefing on Downing Street. <\/p>\n
However, she has reportedly shredded the plans altogether over fears of the rising threat from disgruntled backbenchers and disheartened voters. <\/p>\n
The shocking U-turn, revealed by the Financial Times, has led to the Chancellor studying whether she could introduce an income tax “by stealth” by lowering the thresholds at which people pay tax.<\/p>\n
Ms Reeves is now believed to be grappling for methods to plug the \u00a350billion black hole in the public purse, which will be set out in Parliament on November 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride has declared it time for Rachel Reeves to “step aside” if her Budget…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[51014,79,57794,179,18,19,17,825,5,790,12390,20565,74236],"class_list":{"0":"post-196519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-budget-2025","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-conservative-party","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-money","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-rachel-reeves","19":"tag-uk-politics","20":"tag-video-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115600836877904952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}