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Families across Britain are about to be hit with an April Fool's sting - except there's nothing remotely funny about it.

In just days, council tax bills will surge by up to 5%, piling fresh pressure on households already stretched to breaking point.

Labour and Reform both promised to cut bills, but for millions, the only thing going down is their standard of living.

This is the reality of Labour in power - and a sign of what will happen if Reform gets anywhere near Downing Street. Both Labour and Reform say one thing but deliver the exact opposite.

Under Rachel Reeves, the economy is heading in the wrong direction and fast.

Inflation is much higher than it was at the election, unemployment is climbing, and borrowing is spiralling out of control.

Families are being hammered at every turn.

Higher taxes, higher prices, and now higher council tax too. Labour's answer to a cost-of-living crisis is to make it worse.

They are out of ideas, out of time, and it's hardworking families and businesses who are paying the price.

At the heart of this failure is a Government addicted to spending and blind to the consequences - £66 billion in tax hikes - and still borrowing is soaring.

Debt interest alone has ballooned past £100 billion, draining money that should be spent on priorities like cutting the deficit, cutting taxes and our national security.

We are piling debt onto the next generation at a rate not seen since the 1960s - all to pay for ever more welfare. Starmer's Labour isn't a fair or responsible government.

And then there's the cost of Labour's ideological obsessions.

Ed Miliband's net zero dogma is driving up energy bills and leaving Britain dangerously dependent on foreign imports.

Instead of backing British energy and jobs in the North Sea, Labour is shutting them down and shipping opportunities overseas.

It's bad for growth, bad for security, and worst of all, bad for working families.

Enough is enough.

Starmer and Reeves must axe the fuel tax hike. Ditch the net zero dogma. Drill the North Sea. Back Britain.

Only the Conservatives have the plan and the backbone to get inflation down, cut bills, restore discipline, and get Britain working again.

Families deserve better than Labour's broken promises and Reform's fantasy economics.