Starmer Declines to Rule Out UK Income Tax Thresholds Freeze (1)

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer declined to rule out extending a freeze in income tax thresholds as his government faces growing pressure to boost tax revenues in order to fill a swelling budgetary hole.

Starmer reiterated his Labour government’s commitment to an election pledge not to raise income tax, value added tax and national insurance on workers when asked to do so in the House of Commons on Wednesday. But asked if he would recommit to an existing plan to resume uprating income tax thresholds from 2028-29 in line with inflation, Starmer failed to do so.

Keir Starmer on July 9.

Photographer: Carlos Jasso/Bloomberg

“We will stick ...