Pulled memo shows that Rayner demanded tax increases

The Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner asked the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to increase taxes before this year of the spring.

A memo seen by The Daily Telegraph seemed to push Reeves to collect taxes by 3 billion GBP per year through various measures that the Chancellor did not implement. She repeatedly announced against the increase in taxes and instead announced £ 5 billion in March.

Insides of the government said it was not unusual that discussion papers would be exchanged informally between the departments without registration by ministers.

While the spring declaration went, there are arguments in the Labor Party before the departmental expenditure plans were determined in June.

In particular, those on the left of the party have argued that cuts could be averted in some departments if Reeves introduced wealth tax or relaxes their rules for loans and debts. She has undertaken not to borrow to finance daily expenses.

The conservatives asked the Chancellor to exclude tax increases in the autumn budget.

Inside the memos there were a number of suggestions that contained alternative measures such as increasing corporate tax on banks.

It proposed to extend the freezing to the threshold, where the tax rate of 45% is included in more people in the higher bracket and the tax -free allowance for dividends is deterred.

It also demanded that the lifespan allowance should be set again, which means that there is an upper limit for how much savers could be put into their pension before a higher tax is applied.

This allowance was scrapped under the conservative government, and while Labor had made plans to re -hire the general elections last year, they returned the decision before publishing the party's manifestation.

In an interview with the telegraph, the conservative shadow chancellor Mel Stride said that the note “confirms that we still live with Jeremy Corbyn's Labor Party”.

“Minister of Labor discussed at the highest level, which will increase taxes next,” he added.

“The Chancellor has repeatedly refused to rule out another tax action in autumn, and now we know why – Labor's Top -Messing, including the deputy prime minister, would like to come back to get more.”

A government spokesman told PA Media: “We do not comment on any leaks”.