The damage is entirely self-inflicted. Labour refused to be honest with people before the election and admit they would put up taxes. Instead, they promised not to put up taxes on "working people", a phrase they refused to define before polling day and produced vague contradictory explanations for, after polling day. Now, the Education Secretary claims she's a "working person" on a salary of £160,000!
If they’d reversed Hunt’s fraudulent NI cuts, they be £20bn better off, and most people would have understood why.
And it would have been so simple to just say - “we will not put up taxes on wages or everyday consumption”, full stop.
The damage is entirely self-inflicted. Labour refused to be honest with people before the election and admit they would put up taxes. Instead, they promised not to put up taxes on "working people", a phrase they refused to define before polling day and produced vague contradictory explanations for, after polling day. Now, the Education Secretary claims she's a "working person" on a salary of £160,000!