Rachel Reeves awkwardly watches her interview from a year ago.

Rachel Reeves was left squirming on Sky News as she was reminded of what she said last year about not having to put up taxes again.

The chancellor had to awkwardly watch a re-run of comments she made during an interview with Trevor Phillips in the wake of her first Budget last October.

She told him then that she had “wiped the slate clean” by putting up taxes by £40 billion to fill a £22 billion black hole left by the Tories.

But in last week’s Budget, she hiked taxes once again by a total of £26 billion.

Phillips told her: “Chancellor can we start where we left off last year. Let’s remind ourselves what you said to me 12 months ago.”

Reeves was forced to look on as........

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