IT IS obvious to everyone that Labour have been planning tax rises all along. And when they failed to be honest with the public about this during the election, we called them out for it loud and clear.
In fact, I held a press conference during the campaign where I outlined the glaring gaps in Labour’s plans and the taxes they might raise to pay for their policies.
I stated then that, if they won, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves would falsely claim the public finances they inherited were much worse than they thought, and they would use this to justify imposing tax rises that they hadn’t been honest about with the British people.
Sound familiar?
One of these taxes that …