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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Tuesday, the 4th of November.

Coming up, the Conservatives say the Chancellor's planning to break a manifesto pledge not to raise key taxes for a second time in her forthcoming budget.

She said, I'm not coming back with more taxes, but that wasn't true, Chancellor, was it?

Rachel Reeve says she raised taxes last year to help the NHS in the UK's economy, but...

Since then, anyone can see the big challenges facing the world.

And what about the impact of food price inflation on the high street, specifically the local

CAF?

There are many things that this government might be forgiven for, but taking away the

full English breakfast from a high street is not one of them.

But first, the Chancellor came to the Commons fresh from her unusual early morning speech

and dining street, where she signalled that she could be preparing to put up taxis in her

budget later this month. In its election manifesto, Labour promised not to raise taxis on

working people, so would not

increase national insurance, income tax or VAT. In the Commons, the Conservative shadow

Treasury Minister Richard Fuller wondered if Rachel Reeves had found a way round that election

promise. What is the Chancellor's definition of working people?

A working person is somebody who goes out every day to earn their income.

They rely on prices that are affordable in the shops, low interest rates, taxes as low as possible,

but also public services that work for them. In the last budget, the Chancellor did put up tax, including by raising the

national insurance contributions paid by employers rather than those paid by workers. And she pointed

...