Bridget Phillipson says that taxes for working people are 'already too high'. In an interview on Sky News, she doesn't confirm if Labour's pledge not to raise VAT, income tax and national insurance will remain until the next election.
A key Keir Starmer ally today complained about the focus on definitions of 'working people' after ministers floundered on whether small business owners count.But Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden argued that detailed questions about who the pledge covered was 'not the right way to look at this'.
Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden argued that detailed questions about who the 'working people' pledge covered was 'not the right way to look at this' But she refused to say whether Labour's definition of 'working people' included those who run businesses.Shadow science secretary Andrew Griffith compared Sir Keir Starmer's party to the 'worst form of dodgy car hire firm'.
'Well, we can go through a range of different hypotheticals about who may or may not be captured by tax measures that may or may not happen in the Budget,' she said.'I know it's frustrating ahead of the Budget that I can talk about some areas, but not all of it.' Pressed again whether landlords are classed as working people, Mr McFadden said: 'I honestly think this thing about income levels and job descriptions is not the right way to look at this. The right way to look at this is will we stick to the manifesto promises that we made on tax? And we will, and you'll see that when the Chancellor gets to her feet.'
He also said the debate around not putting up taxes on working people was a 'terrible illusion' and warned putting up employers' national insurance was likely to depress workers' salaries. 'And if they, instead of unwinding the cuts in employees' national insurance contributions, put up employers' national insurance contributions, that will make it less likely that companies will exceed to wage demands, they will press down on that, they will probably be less enthusiastic about creating new jobs.
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