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Hello, this is David Kornock at Westminster, with today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

On Wednesday, the 26th of November, Rachel Reeves used her budget to put up taxes.

I am asking everyone to make a contribution, but I can keep that contribution as low as possible.

The Conservative leader accuses the Chancellor of ditching manifesto pleasures.

She has broken every single one of those promises.

If she had any decency, she would resign. We'll have all the budget

arguments in a moment, but first here's Mandy Baker with a short summary of what Rachel Reeves

had to say. Nothing in the budget really came as a surprise. After all, there'd been weeks of

speculation, some of it from the actual

government. So these were the top five measures. Tax thresholds are to be frozen for an extra

three years until 2031. That means if your pay increases, but the threshold hasn't gone up,

you may be dragged into paying tax or paying a higher rate of tax.

Another freeze on fuel duty, the tax on petrol and diesel will stay the same until next September.

Not such good news for drivers of electric vehicles, a levy of three pence a mile from 2028.

On welfare, the two-child benefit cap has been abolished, so parents can now claim universal credit or tax credits for more than just their first two children.

And a mansion tax, properties in England valued at more than two million pounds, will be hit by a surcharge of at least two and a half thousand pounds from 2008.

The fact that MPs mostly knew what was coming didn't stop them gearing up for the Budget Day tradition of raucous audience participation.

Mandy Baker, only minutes before she was due to deliver her budget statement, Rachel Reeves

was seen in the Commons Chamber consulting her phone and rewriting part of

her speech. The economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, had mistakenly published

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