Mark Harper agreed the PM had made a mistake, after Penny Mordaunt said his decision to leave early was ‘completely wrong’
The claim made by the prime minister that Labour would raise taxes by £2,000 is “misleading”, the shadow business secretary has said.
Jonathan Reynolds said Labour, if it wins the election, would inherit some tax rises included in the government’s existing spending plans, but insisted there would be no additional taxes on households. “It is a lie,” he told BBC Breakfast.
If we were to form a government after the general election on 4 July, we would inherit the government’s spending plans.
Now, I’ll be candid, there are in those plans tax rises. I mean, the personal allowance we all get in terms of our income tax, that is set to be frozen for several years.
