Labour's Great Council Tax Swindle

How Labour's forcing councils to mug their own residents to pay for Westminster's mistakes

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You have to hand it to Rachel Reeves. It takes a special kind of brass neck to stand at the dispatch box, proclaim you're fixing the foundations, then systematically transfer the bill for your spending splurge onto the poorest households in Britain. But that's precisely what Wednesday's Spending Review achieved—a masterc…