KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are gearing up for another tax raid at the Budget next week.
They broke their promise not to hike taxes on working people last year with the Jobs Tax.
Now it looks like they’re going to freeze, or even lower, income tax thresholds — which means more and more Sun readers will be dragged into paying higher rates of tax.
Reeves knows this is a tax raid. She has said freezing thresholds would “hurt working people”.
Even worse is why Labour are doing this.
Starmer and Reeves will try and blame everyone else — the OBR, Brexit, Trump. But the simple reason is their own weakness.
They tried to save £5billion from the bloated welfare bill. But leftie MPs wouldn’t let them, so savings got shelved.
Under pressure from those same Labour MPs, Starmer is now lifting the two-child benefit cap, which ensures that people on benefits have to make the same decisions about having children as everyone else.
Labour’s tax rises aren’t the fault of anyone else.
They are a result of Starmer and Reeves lacking the backbone for spending cuts.
No one voted for out-of-control spending and higher taxes. But there is another way.
The Conservatives will cut spending, cut taxes, back business and get Britain working again.
