Chancellor Rachel Reeves has faced questions from MPs about her plan to cut the winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners, and continued speculation about which taxes she might raise in the October budget.
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Here's what you need to know, and what's still to come:Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out raising pensions tax when her first budget comes round on 30 October;Facing questions from MPs in the Commons, she would only say 'I'm not going to speculate' and repeated her assertion it would be a budget that fixes the 'foundations of the economy';It comes less than 24 hours after Housing Secretary Angela Rayner told the Commons while council tax wouldn't go...
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