By Chris Dorrell While Rachel Reeves laid out a fiscal inheritance that was worse than many had anticipated, tax rises are almost certainly on the way, economists and experts have said in reaction to the Chancellor’s speech on Monday. In the run-up to the election, a gaggle of think tanks said that the ‘books were open‘ and that the scale of the fiscal challenge was available for all to see. But after the Chancellor’s statement on the public finances this afternoon, which laid out a £22bn blackhole in the public finances, many suggested that the new government’s fiscal inheritance was indeed w…
