It’s the great game obsessing all Westminster: who exactly constitutes a ‘working person’? During the election, Labour regularly said that the tax burden on ‘working people’ was too high. In the manifesto, the party again pledged to protect ‘working people’ from paying more. Now, ahead of a tax-raising Budget, various groups are discovering that while they might think they get up every day and do something resembling hard work, they are, in fact, not actually a working person after all.
On Monday morning, Starmer referenced the term 26 times in a speech before telling journalists: ‘The working people of this country know exactly who they are.’ Sounds like self-ID isn’t dead yet eh? In case some readers don’t know ‘exactly who they are’, Mr S has produced a handy cut-out-and-keep guide to who isn’t a working person according to Labour ministers…
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