Nick Robinson clashed with Rachel Reeves.

Nick Robinson clashed with Rachel Reeves after the chancellor went back on her previous promises not to raise taxes on “working people”.

The chancellor performed a major U-turn in the Budget by freezing the income tax salary thresholds in a move which will drag more than 1.5 million workers into higher bands.

That was despite her ruling out such a move at her first Budget a year ago.

She also told business leaders that she would not put up taxes again – then hiked them by another £26 billion on Wednesday.

On Radio 4′s Today programme, Robinson asked Reeves: “Why should people believe you this morning given what you said a year ago wasn’t true?”

She said: “I think that your listeners over the last year have seen what’s........

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