Matthew Taylor

Sunday shows round-up: Kwarteng defends ‘mini-Budget for the rich’

Kwasi Kwarteng (Credit: BBC News)

Keir Starmer – Labour would reintroduce 45p tax rate

The battle lines for the next election are being drawn. Friday’s ‘mini-Budget’ turned out to be a major event in its own right, with a raft of measures aimed unashamedly at whirring the UK’s economy back to life. The statement has also put a new spring in the step of Labour’s leader Sir Keir Starmer, who was interviewed this morning by Laura Kuenssberg as his party conference gets underway in Liverpool. Kuenssberg asked where Labour stood on the changes to income tax, which most notably saw the scrapping of the 45p top rate:

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