Starmer rejects Tory claim raising employers’ national insurance would break manifesto promise – UK politics live

Starmer rejects Tory claim raising employers’ national insurance would break manifesto promise – UK politics live

The prime minister said it was ‘very clear’ in the manifesto that Labour would not raise taxes on working people

David Cameron, the former prime minister and former foreign secretary, has revealed he had been planning to impose sanctions on two extremist members of the Israeli government over their support for violent settlers and calls to block aid entering Gaza, Patrick Wintour reports.

The Conservatives say raising employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) would break a Labour manifesto promise. (See 8.24am.) Keir Starmer says it wouldn’t. (See 9.12am.) Who’s right?

Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase national insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of income tax, or VAT.

Laura Trott, chief secretary to the Treasury, has laid out a raft of new taxes Britain will face under a Labour government.

Trott outlined the 18 new tax rises Labour will hit the country with – everything from your home to your car and from your work to your pension.

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