Starmer will use his Labour Party Conference speech in Liverpool today to announce plans to to give benefit inspectors powers like those used by HMRC to target tax evasion.
A former Scottish Labour leader has urged Keir Starmer to "root out" the super-rich instead of focussing on benefit fraudsters.
Leonard shared the story on X with the headline 'Keir Starmer pledges to root out benefit fraudsters in speech'. Leonard wrote: "How about rooting out the tax avoiders, big City bonuses and excessive wealth? How about rooting out poverty and inequality?"
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