One of the reasons members of Liz Truss’s team remain upbeat despite the onslaught of criticism towards government’s tax-cutting budget is that they think it pushes Labour into uncomfortable territory. Will Keir Starmer respond to a Tory programme of mass tax cuts with tax rises? This morning, he offered a partial answer.
Starmer repeatedly accused Truss’s government of having the wrong priorities and helping the rich over the poorest in society
Appearing on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg from Liverpool for Labour party conference, Starmer was pressed on what he would keep and what he would reverse if Labour take power at the next election. After some dithering on Friday, Starmer said a Labour government would bring back into force the 45 per cent rate of income tax for the highest earners (which Kwasi Kwarteng scrapped on Friday): ‘It is the wrong choice. I would reverse the decision that they made on Friday’.
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