The prime minister said it was ‘very clear’ in the manifesto that Labour would not raise taxes on working people
This is what Keir Starmer said when Henry Zeffman asked him if Labour’s manifesto ruled out increasing any rate of national insurance, or if it was just ruling out increasing the employees’ rate.
Starmer replied:
We were very clear the manifesto that we wouldn’t be increasing tax on working people. We expressly said that that was income tax, that was NICs [national insurance contributions] etc, so we set that out in the manifesto.
It was very clear from our manifesto that what we were saying is we’re not to raise tax for working people. It wasn’t just the manifesto. We said it repeatedly in the campaign, and we intend to keep the promises that we made in our manifesto.
So I’m not going to reveal to you the details of the budget. You know that that’s not possible at this stage. What I will say is where we made promises in our manifesto we’ll will be keeping those promises.
Continue reading… The Guardian Read More The prime minister said it was ‘very clear’ in the manifesto that Labour would not raise taxes on working peopleThis is what Keir Starmer said when Henry Zeffman asked him if Labour’s manifesto ruled out increasing any rate of national insurance, or if it was just ruling out increasing the employees’ rate.Starmer replied:We were very clear the manifesto that we wouldn’t be increasing tax on working people. We expressly said that that was income tax, that was NICs [national insurance contributions] etc, so we set that out in the manifesto.It was very clear from our manifesto that what we were saying is we’re not to raise tax for working people. It wasn’t just the manifesto. We said it repeatedly in the campaign, and we intend to keep the promises that we made in our manifesto.So I’m not going to reveal to you the details of the budget. You know that that’s not possible at this stage. What I will say is where we made promises in our manifesto we’ll will be keeping those promises. Continue reading…
