Budget 2021 poised to raise taxes after key ally William Hague says they must go up

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Taxes look poised to rise in tomorrow's budget after a key Tory ally of Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks to say they must go up.

Ex-party leader William Hague said there must be hikes on both businesses and individuals to pay the £280bn cost of Covid. Lord Hague - who was MP for Richmond, Yorkshire, before Mr Sunak took over - wrote in the Daily Telegraph: "It pains me to say, after spending much of my life arguing for lower taxes, that we have reached the point where at least some business and personal taxes have to go up. "Conservatives need to remember that for 200 years, from Pitt in 1797 to Thatcher and Cameron in our own day, keeping the country creditworthy has stood them in very good stead." Mr Sunak and Lord Hague are close