Endless spree
RACHEL Reeves has relentlessly hammered working families and businesses with massive tax hikes.
The Treasury raked in the highest ever single December tax take last month of £94billion — up £7.7billion on the previous year — thanks in part to her National Insurance rise on jobs.
Yet the Chancellor STILL had to get her begging bowl out — adding another £11.6billion to our national debt, in order to fund a welfare splurge.
Labour jumped on the fact that this astronomical amount of new borrowing was less than some experts expected.
But — before Treasury ministers break out the champagne — it was still the THIRD highest amount borrowed for the first nine months of a financial year since records began.
Voters might just have swallowed giant tax rises if they thought the money was going towards improving clapped-out public services.
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But vast sums are being blown on handouts for 4.1million people who don’t even have to look for work.
Last month Reeves spent an extra £2.1billion on welfare — much of it to fund sharp rises for Benefits Street.
Effectively, the Chancellor is robbing hard-working Peter in order to pay Paul to stay at home and do nothing.
None of this will result in economic growth or fix any of Britain’s problems.
Rather, it ensures we never escape from the high-tax, high-spending doom loop.
Clash Gordon
GORDON Ramsay knows a thing or two about running restaurants.
So if the world-famous chef says Britain’s hospitality sector is enduring its worst kitchen nightmare for years then things really must be bad.
Rachel Reeves has so far failed to explain why it is only pubs she is willing to help with a business rates bailout.
Ramsay says her decision not to step in for eateries and hotels means she is making them “lambs to the slaughter”.
The truth is that pubs and restaurants — and small shops — are the lifeblood of our communities.
Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.
No protection
THE first illegal migrants have arrived to be housed at a former Army barracks.
But just as with the migrant hotels which sprung up across the country, local residents are being badly let down.
That’s because the gates of the barracks won’t be locked. Hundreds of young men will be free to come and go as they please.
Some — as we reported yesterday — may even disappear. Others will try to work illegally. Locals worry about sex attacks on women and girls.
Until the camps are secure, migrants won’t be deterred from coming . . . and residents will continue to live in fear.