Labour should reverse Tory tax cuts and focus on help for the vulnerable, says Andy Burnham 🗨️ He added that the policies announced on Friday were “radical and deeply wrong – and I would go so far as to say immoral”
and instead focus on providing help for the most vulnerable, Andy Burnham has said.were “radical and deeply wrong – and I would go so far as to say immoral”.
The Greater Manchester Mayor said “now is not the time for tax cuts” and hit out at the Government for drawing “battle lines with working class people” by “splurging billions on the wealthiest people in the country”. He condemned Friday’s fiscal event for failing to do anything meaningful to get people through the autumn and winter and said Labour should reverse the tax cuts if it enters power after the next General Election.
Mr Burnham told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday show: “I don’t know how you can justify a package like that when… the heads of millions of people are under the water.”
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