![]() ![]() She said: "The truth is that this will be the first parliament ever where real disposable incomes will be lower at the end of it than they were at the beginning. It was put to Ms Reeves that the rise in Universal Credit and the national living indicates that the Tories are putting themselves on an election footing, and she replied that when that comes next year, the question for people will be if they are better off than they were. She also pointed out that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said that "not only is the tax burden at a 75-year high, but it will increase every year over the next five years." ![]() She said: "There wasn't anything yesterday that remotely compensates for the tax increases that we've had under the Conservatives these last four years." Labour's shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has just ben speaking to Sky News, and we asked her for her thoughts on yesterday's autumn statement. ![]()
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