Kiir Starmer says that the UK cannot be a “tax method of growth”

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Sir Kerr Starmer refused calls from major work personalities to fill an increasingly financial hole with a large tax height, warning: “I don’t think you can impose taxes on your way to grow.”

Starmer is under pressure such as Deputy Leader Angela Rainer and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to increase taxes to pay the costs of public spending, including the luxury.

But the Prime Minister insisted that the biggest problem in facing Britain was a lack of growth. “The question is how we grow the economy and create wealth,” he told the BBC. today program.

“I don’t think you can impose taxes on growth. We have a high tax as it is.”

These Starmer’s comments will be reassured like the wealthy in Britain and the banks that found themselves in the scenes of some work deputies before the autumn budget.

a lot Economists believe Chancellor Rachel Reeves will have no choice but to raise taxes, because its self -imposed financial rules become increasingly narrow.

Reeves has left herself only 9.9 billion pounds from the “head room” against borrowing bases in its spring statement in March, but since then the cost of government debt service has witnessed.

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Meanwhile, Starmer, under pressure from the MPS labor, announced plans to back down from a 1.5 billion pounds of River plan to remove fuel payments in winter from retirees better.

The Prime Minister also indicated that he will fail the maximum child, which was presented by the last conservative government-a step that will cost about 3.5 billion pounds-while the Labor Party representatives are demanding simultaneously to reduce the plans of 5 billion pounds from the social welfare budget.

Reeves may face another fall if – as expected – the independent budget responsibility office reduces its expectations for the United Kingdom’s future growth, which is widely seen by economists as very optimistic.

Looking at the narrow financial situation, Starmer refused on Monday to ensure that the work government honors its “ambition” to raise the defense Spending From 2.5 percent in 2027 to 3 percent in the next parliament.

He said: “I will not indulge in the fictional policy that dates back to the air from the air.”

However, he added pressure on Reeves by appearing that he indicated that his decline in paying winter fuel – which he previously said would happen as a “financial event” as in the autumn budget – can be implemented before the cold weather returns later in the year.

“If we want to look again with any qualified retirees, the more clearly we have in all of this,” he said.

“The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. The number 10 needs to capture the phone to the number 11 and announce the details of the apparent rotation without delaying further delay,” said Daisy Cooper, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat, said.

In recent weeks, it turned out that Rainer in March called for a series of tax increase to enhance public financial resources, including increasing companies’ tax on banks and canceling tax -exempt stocks.

Brown, who called for an end to carrying the bilateral benefit, suggested higher taxes on banks and the gambling industry.