Across the road, equally disappointed butcher’s shop owner Kevin Harvey (pictured above) says Reeves is ‘hated around here’ for changes that will affect business from the start of the new tax year.
Squeeze: The Chancellor (pictured) cut Business Rate Relief to 40%, while employers' National Insurance Contributions are being raised by £25bn.
Many traders are affected by a reduction in business rate relief to 40 per cent, while employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are being raised by £25billion.
Beef: Butcher Kevin Harvey (pictured) said Chancellor Rachel Reeves was 'hated' over changes in her October budget which he claims will force small firms out of businesses.
One shopkeeper in Rachel Reeves’s constituency recalls how, before the election, the then-shadow chancellor said she would look to cut business rates.
