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…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.