£2000 Bill for Working Families: First Tory Attack Lands

Starmer let Sunak hammer in his tax attack last night: a £2,000 hike for working families. The figure is derived from Treasury analysis of Tory-supplied Labour policies, which they insist are to the letter. Labour has moved to kill the statistic this morning with the release of a letter from Treasury Permanent Secretary James Bowler to Darren Jones which claims that, because it “includes costs beyond those provided by the Civil Service, the “Labour’s Tax Rises” dossier “should not be presented as having come from the Civil Service“.[…] Read the rest