It's hard to fill a budget black hole if you've ruled out raising income tax | William Keegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : What Labour's shadow chancellor, John Smith, was trying to do was promise some socially desirable increases in public spending, but assuring the electorate that these would be financed by increases in taxation - a difference of approach from the short-lived Liz Truss-Kwasi Kwarteng budget of 2022, where there was no attempt to prove that their plans were financeable.

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