As we get to the nuts and bolts of who is going to shoulder the burden of plugging gaps in the public finances, the 'difficult decisions', as the prime minister puts it, are going to bite.
Who counts as a working person will matter a lot next week when the new Labour government unveils what is being billed as a historic budget. Sir Keir Starmer used the phrase 'working people' repeatedly in the general election as he sought to reassure voters he wasn't going to raise their taxes.
This is a strong hit that rises in capital gains taxes could be on the way and also leans to a bigger point that Sir Keir thinks the wealthy - workers or not - should pay more tax. Working people are, in his 'mind's eye', the people who have a 'sort of knot in the bottom of the stomach, which if push comes to shove and something happens to me and my family, I can't just get a cheque book out, even though maybe got a bit of savings'.
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