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<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">Downing Street has opened the door for Labour to break its election promises and raise taxes in the Budget, as chancellor Rachel Reeves told critics in the party to stop peddling the “dangerous” idea that she can relax fiscal discipline.</p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">Darren Jones, the prime minister’s chief secretary, refused to rule out the possibility that Reeves would break Labour’s manifesto vow not to increase income tax, value added tax or national insurance rates. He told Sky News: “The manifesto stands today because decisions haven’t been taken yet.</p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,s...