Energy minister Claire Coutinho has accused Labour of "jacking up taxes for working people" with their spending plans. It comes as Rishi Sunak accused Sir Keir Starmer of having an economic plan which would mean households in Britain would see their tax bills rise by £2,000 during their first TV debate on Tuesday night. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Let's look at the difference between us and Labour when it comes to taxes.
00:03 In 2019, every single person, including Keir Starmer, in the Labour Party,
00:07 stood on a manifesto to raise taxes to the highest level in peacetime before a pandemic.
00:12 What happened with the Conservative Party is we had a global pandemic
00:14 and a cost of living crisis caused by the war in Europe.
00:18 And so yes, we did spend money to help people through that difficult time.
00:21 But now we are returning to our principles of bringing taxes down,
00:24 whereas the Labour Party are yet again setting out more spending plans
00:27 that the only way that they can fund is by jacking up taxes for normal people in this country,
00:32 which I think is the last thing that people need,
00:34 particularly having been through such a difficult time over the last few years.