Keir Starmer vows to reinstate top tax band for earners over £150k
by Aubrey Allegretti from World news | The Guardian on (#641AJ)
Labour leader's promise to keep basic rate cut at odds with Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham
Keir Starmer has vowed to reinstate the top tax band for those earning over 150,000 while keeping the planned cut in the basic rate of income tax, minutes after a senior Labour figure said both should be restored.
On the first day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Starmer said it was hugely divisive" of ministers to hand out a tax cut to the extremely well-paid - and said he would reverse the scrapping of the additional rate - 45% - on the highest earners.
Continue reading...