Starmer Vows No Tax Surprises in Labour’s Final Election Offer

Keir Starmer pledged Labour’s election manifesto will contain no new tax rises beyond those the opposition has already announced, as the party leader seeks to defend a wide poll lead that puts him on course to entering Downing Street as UK prime minister next month.

“There won’t be any surprises on tax” in the manifesto, Starmer told Sky News on the campaign trail on Saturday as he promoted his party’s offering to small businesses. “All of our plans are fully costed, fully funded, and none of them involving tax rises over and above those that we’ve already set out.”

Labour leader Keir Starmer says his party’s election manifesto won’t contain any tax surprises.

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