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Government minister refuses to rule out extending income tax threshold freeze

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A senior minister has declined to rule out extending the freeze on income tax thresholds as speculation about possible tax increases in the Budget continued to mount.

Wes Streeting said he would not guess measures that the Chancellor might introduce in the Budget on October 30, but told broadcasters on Sunday morning that he had already agreed health spending with Rachel Reeves. “If you’re asking me whether I would vote against anything in the Chancellor’s Budget?

The answer is no, of course I’m not going to do that,” the Health Secretary told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on Sky News.

Mr Streeting went on to say: “What we’re not going to do is duck the difficult decisions, have Government by gimmick, short-term sticking plasters, because that is exactly how we ended up in this situation.” He later told Sky News: “There are a whole load of choices that we will have to make that we would have preferred not to.

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