Keir Starmer has refused to rule out extending the freeze on income thresholds at next week's Budget . Chancellor Rachel Reeves , who is grappling with a multi-million pound black hole in the public finances, said last year she would end the freeze by 2028. Introduced under the Tories, it is often branded a stealth tax as more and more people are dragged into paying a higher rate of tax as their incomes rise. Ms Reeves had argued extending the freeze would "hurt working people" and "take more