LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday the government did not have any plans to announce tax hikes on a scale similar to the 40 billion pounds ($54 billion) of increases introduced in last year’s budget in October.
“I have absolutely no intention of repeating a budget on that scale again,” she told a press conference in northwest England, where she announced investments in regional transport projects.
Reeves said her Oct. 30 tax rises had been necessary to repair the public finances but that they were now on a “firm footing”.
She will present a spending review next week, setting out the budgets for government departments for the rest of the parliamentary term.
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(Reporting by Muvija M and David Milliken; Writing by Catarina Demony; Editing by Sachin Ravikumar)
