Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves do it like others blink or breathe. They drop pledges as easily as if they never made them. It comes naturally to them. They try to hide their true motives and get something they wouldn’t if they told the truth. And the biggest whopper of all is about to be exposed.

Starmer told porkies to win the Labour leadership, spinning the Corbynite left a web of left-wing fantasy, to convince them he was one of their own. It worked then, so he tried the same trick on the electorate. In August, I came up with a list of 25 “blatant” untruths. It didn’t take me long.

He and Reeves peddled half-truths and suspect claims throughout the general election campaign, and printed them in the Labour manifesto.

Within days of winning power, they began to unravel. Worst of all, neither cared. They had what they wanted – power.

Like tinpot dictators, they now twist the truth with impunity. They misled voters about axing the Winter Fuel Payment for pensioners, gave the impression the £86,000 social care cap was safe, only to instantly scrap it.

Starmer broke promises to 1950s Waspi women, duped farmers and family firms, and was accused of lying tothe public about the Chagos Islands too.

This devious duo misled us about not hiking National Insurance (NI), which Reeves did in her first Budget, then lied about lying about it for good measure.

What do you expect from a plagiarist who’s fibbed about everything from her brilliant CV to her history as a childhood chess prodigy?

But their dodgiest claim of all was that Labour wouldn’t hike taxes on “working people”. It’s there in black and white in the manifesto:“Labour will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT.”

As I said, they quickly broke the NI pledge. Reeves justified last year’s brutal Budget with another sleight of hand, that she only uncovered a £22billion “black hole” in the nation’s finances after taking office.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies scornfully exposed that one, saying it “was obvious to any who dared to look”.

Now, all signs point to another betrayal. On November 26, Reeves may put 2p on the basic rate of income tax, in a £16billion raid on more than 30million “working people”, plus millions of pensioners.

If she does, the public will feel conned like never before. We didn’t vote for this. Including a great many Labour voters.

Yet none of it was inevitable. Starmer and Reeves could have been straight with us and still ousted the hated Tories. Instead, they blundered straight into the political trap set by former Conservative Chancellor Jeremy Hunt when he cut NI by 4p.

They could have slameed it as a cynical Tory stunt and vowed to reverse it responsibly. But that would have involved being square with us. Not their speciality.

Now Reeves is sinking in an economic mess of her own making. She may need to raise as much as £50billion in next month’s Budget.

And that’s after swearing blind last November that she wouldn’t do a Budget like the last one “ever again”. I called that one out at the time, saying that if Reeves says one thing, we must assume the opposite will happen. And it will.

The nonsense comes so thick and fast it’s impossible to keep up. It’s rule by deceit.

She’s spinning again now, insisting she won’t introduce a wealth tax. Yet she’s likely to tighten inheritance tax and introduce a new “mansion tax” on pricier homes. What are they, if not wealth taxes?

The rubbish rolls on. Reeves constantly claims she’s “fixed the foundations”, “restored stability” and “put the public finances on a firm footing”, even as she steers Britain towards the economic abyss.

Naturally, none of this will ever be her fault. She’ll scapegoat Brexit, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage or anything else her dwindling band of Labour loyalists will swallow.

When the Budget snuffs out what’s left of Britain’s economic life, Starmer and Reeves will twist again, and claim it was all somebody else’s fault. It just won’t stop.

They have no mandate to hike income tax, no moral authority to govern, and no shred of honesty left. They should resign. It would be the first honest thing they did.