Labour is standing on a precipice: if it breaks its election promise on tax, it will never be trusted again | Owen Jones

Ruling out tax rises in its 2024 manifesto was utterly reckless and will fan the flames of the far rightIt’s rare to watch a political calamity advance with such gruesome inevitability. Rachel Reeves’s reported plan to shred Labour’s flagship tax pledge in the upcoming budget is so plainly disastrous that it invites the suspicion that the party leadership has completely lost its senses. But madness would be too generous an alibi for a faction that long ago abandoned any purpose