Would new health taxes in the budget be such a sin?

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Talk of expanding health taxes doesn’t seem quite as crazy when one considers the daunting prospect of raising £3bn to fund the NHS

With food prices, at last, showing signs of moving in the right direction, just as the industry takes on its vital golden quarter, it would surely be a sin for Rachel Reeves to contemplate interventions which might push prices in the opposite direction.

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