Rachel Reeves at the 2024 Budget:
“I have come to the conclusion that extending the threshold freeze would hurt working people and take more money out of their payslips. I am keeping every single promise on tax that I made in our manifesto, so there will be no extension of the freeze in income tax and national insurance thresholds beyond the decisions by the previous government.”
Rachel Reeves today at the Treasury Select Committee:
“the freeze on tax thresholds… we extended that for a further three years. It’s not a breach of the manifesto, but it is asking everybody to contribute more.”
Red-handed…
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”