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Threshold freeze | Two-child limit | Badenoch’s vitriol | Cost-cutting at Christmas | Office for Budget Irresponsibility? I am absolutely disgusted and so disheartened that a Labour government is freezing personal tax allowances for a further three years. We’re all well aware that books have to be balanced, but we all know that freezing tax allowances disproportionately affects lower earners. Add to this the inflation increase over the last few years and it’s surely careless at best and heartless at worst. I’d like to say “unbelievable”, but it’s not, is it? Su HardmanWoodbridge, Suffolk • Is it mansplaining to…

Linda Marriott and Oane Jansen give Labour the benefit of the doubt. Plus a letter from John Thorn Reading Aditya Chakrabortty’s article (A budget to save Britain’s finances? More like Operation Save Our Skins, 26 November) and then the one by Martin Kettle (Rachel Reeves’s budget has inflamed, not calmed, Britain’s febrile mood, 27 November), which both seem to comprehensively trash Rachel Reeves’s budget, I thought – and not for the first time lately – with friends like these who needs enemies? You might find that many people out here could see that whoever took over from the Tories’…