Will Rachel Reeves bend financial rules to help balance books?

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Rachel Reeves was impressed. In October last October, after the first budget announced the amount of £ 40 billion and the expenditures of £ 70 billion and 70 billion pounds, Chancellor said.

“I’m really clear, I’m not back with more debt or more taxes,” he said.

These words were not well, because reeves, resuscitation will be forced to take off the broadcast, taxes or borrowing or stay in place where both financial rules are limited.

Reveves won a consolation from the IMF on Tuesday, which was the “reliable and growth” of the CANSLOR’s financial strategy, he said. However, this was the “significant risks” related to the delivery, and the “significant risks” needed “if the costs of additional taxes or the necessary costs.”

BVF, who spoke to the Treasury Treasury, which is the year before producing the Health Department in the English economy of IV Bathing the British financial framework to promote “policy stability” between budgets.

Problems are collected: Debt costs Attempts and attempts to save money by reducing the benefits of the Chancellor, the Tolerance for cuts fled to the strong opposition from the deputies.

Last week, Sir Keir Starmer restricted that the government received winter fuel payments from about 1.5 billion pounds. Now he wants to reduce the conservative period to another £ 3.5 billion.

Slow medium-term growth, Donald Trump has been added to these forecasts of the possible discount in fertility forecasts for trade wars and budget liability and reures.

Some economists believe that Rekon Revecon will be abnoxed by 9.9 billion pounds against financial rules, and to find billions of pounds to balance the books.

“The rules of FISCAL will be almost violated,” said Stephen Mild, the Interim Director of the National Economic and Social Research Institute. Added that public finances were a problem for Chancellor, taking back the “great three” tax taxes, the national insurance and additional value taxes of the chancellor.

“If the Chancellor is currently scheduled for planning … then, if the main rate is, I would have at least increasing the higher level of income tax,” he said.

“What I can’t see, it is very inevitable that the spending is to raise the things to the taxes.”

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“There are many options, but it is always difficult to increase in advance without a large three tax touches,” they added.

Reeves’ allies insist that the Chancellor will not use the next autumn budget to release FISCAL Straitjacket by violating financial rules. “They can’t be discussed,” he said. Reeves called them “iron covered.”

However, the IMF proposed to maintain only the unified annual assessment of the OBR in the future – the budget is not twice a year.

The fund is financially “headroom” and probably the tax increase in the government wants to increase the taxable taxes that the weak decisions accepted in the government are responsible. The IMF officials say no other country in finance of the state, so far, so far, so far, so far, so far so far so much.

I would like to see this happened, according to government officials, when the Revees had to save the summer statement, when the last minute was forced to save the OBR, the forecasts were worse.

Research Director James Smith, a resolution foundation, said that the problem is not only a certain goal, and the “very historical level” of the heading room, which requires the “very historical level” and the government’s policy, he said.

The assessment of the government does not meet the financial rules is the OBR’s forecast time when 2011 produces the forecast of the parliamentary act. This should be changed, although the government has hit the duties of OBR in 2024 in additional legislation.

This is nothing to help the budget in the summer statement of 2026, but to help him with a more problematically appearing for the budget this year.