'Keir Starmer is right to back workers but the richest must still pay more tax'
Low and middle earners already pay enough under the Tories, so Keir Starmer is right to pledge that workers won’t face higher tax if he becomes Prime Minister.
His reassurance will help protect Labour against scurrilous attacks from hypocritical Conservatives – a party which has increased the level taken by the Government to heights last seen shortly after the Second World War. When boosting growth isn’t easy, questions do need to be asked about how Labour would raise funds, or what it would borrow, to improve life and revive ailing public services.
Higher taxes on the well-off are popular but Starmer has dropped a pledge to raise income tax for the top 5%, while Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves ruled out equalising capital gains tax or imposing a wealth tax. In seeking to repeat Labour’s vote-winning 1997 commitment to freeze basic and higher income tax, the current leader should still require those with the deepest pockets to contribute a fairer share.
School shame
School days can be some of the best of your life but not when an incompetent Tory government is shutting classrooms for thousands of pupils. Accusations that warnings were ignored about crumbling concrete demand answers.
Also under scrutiny are claims of regular alerts that, a whistleblower maintains, will prove that Tory Ministers failed to fix the problem when it was first flagged. Given this latest setback to vital education, children and parents deserve all the facts. It appears this situation could have been remedied long ago, so that all of our schools would be opening for the new term.
Sunak branded 'pathetic' for attempt to pin blame on Labour for mass strikes
Heated debate
Heatwaves used to be a high summer phenomenon, and experiencing scorchers in September is fairly unusual. Enjoying high temperatures while saving the planet is a conundrum we can all consider while sitting in the sunshine.
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