The biggest risk to this government is no longer economic turbulence, but itself

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Income tax thresholds were not uprated by inflation whilst benefits were.
52% : An effort to craft a left-friendly tax-and-spend narrative?
51% : The Office for Budget Responsibility's revelation of an improving fiscal picture as their forecasts progressed has detonated the narrative on which the Chancellor built her case for tax rises, spending restraint and tough talk on fiscal discipline.
49% : Rail fares were frozen while electric vehicles were slapped with a mileage levy.
47% : They had already reacted nervously to Reeves' rapid reversal on income tax policy.
44% : Was this a calculated attempt to exceed expectations on Budget day by unveiling fewer tax rises than trailed?
42% : Taxes rose for savers, landlords and pensioners but not for banks.
32% : Reeves had previously called national insurance hikes a "tax on jobs" and condemned frozen income tax thresholds as a squeeze on working people.

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