Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
Sunak repeatedly claimed that “independent Treasury civil servants” had come up with calculations showing Labour will put taxes up by £2,000 per household.
On Sky News this morning, Ashworth said: “Last night exposed how desperate Rishi Sunak has become because he lied about Labour’s tax plans.“What he said is categorically untrue. Labour will not put up income tax, will not put up National Insurance, will not put up VAT, and I think what we saw last night with Rishi Sunak was how desperate he becomes.
She said: “This is a figure which has come up by Treasury officials, so those are independent, impartial civil servants and what they’ve done is very simple.“They’ve added up the costs of the policies that the Labour Party have said that they want to put in place in the next parliament, and the figure that that comes out with is an extra £2,000 worth of taxes for working families.”
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