They fear a rise in fuel duty would filter through to their constituents in an easy to understand way
Only occasionally did a brief glimpse of what a future Britain may look like emerge from the picture the Prime Minister sketched today. A blanket promise to “prevent devastating austerity” in public spending was the surest signal yet of the tax hikes and spending cuts worth £40 billion voters are aware are coming on Wednesday.
Minister after minister has spent the last fortnight offering their own definitions. Anyone expecting Starmer to emulate LS Lowry and paint an explicit but sentimental portrait of stick men on their way t’mill was to be disappointed. The Prime Minister said working people of Britain “know exactly who they are”.
Starmer said he hopes that “pretty well all” of the biggest tax rises under his leadership will come in this year’s Budget but couldn’t “give you a cast-iron guarantee that in no future Budget will there be an adjustment of tax”, he said, pointing to the experience of the pandemic and Ukraine war as proof that sometimes events blow plans off course. No hostage to fortune here.
“Look – nobody wants higher taxes, just like nobody wants public spending cuts,” Starmer said. “But we have to be realistic about where we are as a country. This is not 1997, when the economy was decent but public services were on their knees. And it’s not 2010, where public services were strong, but the public finances were weak. We have to deal with both sides of that coin.”on Wednesday.
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