Prime minister will say government will ignore ‘populist chorus of easy answers’ as it is set to raise taxes and rewrite fiscal rules in this week’s budget
Conservative shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins has accused the Keir Starmer government of imposing “1970s socialism” with its budget plans.
Speaking on GB News, Atkins, who retained her Louth and Horncastle seat in July’s election, said:
This is socialism that we’ve seen in the 1970s. This Labour government came into power promising they weren’t going to raise taxes. They have this peculiar definition of working people. They don’t seem to understand what a working person is, even though they’ve set this test for themselves.
If you have assets, if you work, if you’re a pensioner looking this winter as to how you’re going to make up that shortfall, given that they’ve slashed winter fuel payments, this is going to affect all of us.
I don’t define this by picking a job, or an income level, and relate it to the promises you just mentioned in the manifesto. We were talking about the taxes that people pay on their wages, and we said we will not increase those.
Look, that was true in the campaign. It’s true today. It will be true after Wednesday. We will stick to those promises when the Chancellor updates the budget speech this week.
Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Prime minister will say government will ignore ‘populist chorus of easy answers’ as it is set to raise taxes and rewrite fiscal rules in this week’s budgetConservative shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins has accused the Keir Starmer government of imposing “1970s socialism” with its budget plans.Speaking on GB News, Atkins, who retained her Louth and Horncastle seat in July’s election, said:This is socialism that we’ve seen in the 1970s. This Labour government came into power promising they weren’t going to raise taxes. They have this peculiar definition of working people. They don’t seem to understand what a working person is, even though they’ve set this test for themselves.If you have assets, if you work, if you’re a pensioner looking this winter as to how you’re going to make up that shortfall, given that they’ve slashed winter fuel payments, this is going to affect all of us.I don’t define this by picking a job, or an income level, and relate it to the promises you just mentioned in the manifesto. We were talking about the taxes that people pay on their wages, and we said we will not increase those.Look, that was true in the campaign. It’s true today. It will be true after Wednesday. We will stick to those promises when the Chancellor updates the budget speech this week. Continue reading…
