Keir Starmer is a working person, Rachel Reeves has insisted amid an ongoing row over the definition.
Speaking to LBC's Tom Swarbrick, Ms Reeves insisted that Sir Keir is a working person as he "goes out to work".It comes amid an ongoing row over the definition of a "working person", after the PM repeatedly promised that they will not have their taxes increased."The Prime Minister gets his income from going out to work and working for our country," she said.
"Read more: Rachel Reeves to rewrite debt rules in bid to free up £50bn in spendingRead more: Rachel Reeves promises first Budget will be economic 'reset' for UK When pushed on Sir Keir's suggestion that people who have shares are not 'working people', Ms Reeves told Tom: "People who go out and make their money through work are, by definition, working people and the key taxes that working people pay… they will not be rising.
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