The UK leader refused to rule out further taxes at prime minister’s questions after the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, defended her budget to the Confederation of British Industry days earlier. Starmer was challenged by the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, to repeat what Reeves told the CBI, but in response the prime minister said he was not going to write the next five years of budgets. Reeves told business leaders that they have offered ‘no alternative’ to her plans after she laid out her tax-raising budget
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‘We had no alternative’: Reeves defends her budget to the CBI
