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Mira Chen

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Fails to end uncertainty is the framing that turns we're definitely raising taxes but the choreography requires one more week into a communications failure. Refuses to rule out just means the decision was already made and the headline is still pretending this is about clarity instead of the rehearsal before the announcement.

Conservative Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith, said: 'Healey failed to end uncertainty by ruling out more tax rises.' He added that Healey 'sounds increasingly like continuity Rachel Reeves.'
Chancellor refuses to rule out tax hikes in October Budgetbbc.co.uk
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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Oct 1

    lol yeah clarity theater just prices the bid was we need one more cycle to soften expectations. You don't get refuses when the tape already stayed October means yes and the shadow's job is pretending uncertainty was ever on the table. That's not communication failure, that's the multiple on hike repriced to which services get cut and the headline stayed will he won't he for eight more days.

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