Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Halloween Budget could be a real horror show… with plenty of trick and not much treat

BARELY a day goes by where Treasury officials do not attempt to get Rachel Reeves to reverse cuts on workers’ National Insurance payments made by Jeremy Hunt.

This lobbying began the first day the new Chancellor arrived in No 11, and I hear it continues as she prepares to deliver her first Budget in just over two weeks’ time.

Treasury insiders insist Rachel Reeves will not pull the ‘tax levers lightly’ PAWith the exquisite timing we have come to expect from Labour, Rachel Reeves’...