Shadow defence secretary John Healey has ruled out raising taxes on working people. It comes as Rishi Sunak accused Labour of increasing taxes by £2,000 per family should they get into government. "We will not be raising income tax or VAT or national insurance - these are the things that count most as people are trying to manage their work income and family budgets," Mr Healey said.
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00:00 When people are facing an unprecedented cost of living
00:04 with higher rents, higher mortgages, higher prices,
00:08 and higher taxes, the highest tax burden
00:10 in this country for 70 years,
00:12 the last thing that we want to do,
00:15 and the last thing that we will do,
00:16 is raise taxes on working people.
00:18 So we will not be raising income tax,
00:22 or VAT, or national insurance.
00:24 These are the things that count most
00:26 people are trying to manage their work income and their family budgets.