Rishi Sunak warned a Labour government would mean “higher taxes and working people paying the price” in a PMQs clash today.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer repeated demands to the Prime Minister to cost a £46billion plan to end national insurance.
Sir Keir told the Commons: “(The Prime Minister) is not denying the £46billion promise to scrap national insurance.
“He is refusing to say where the money will come from and we’ve been trying for months to get to the bottom of this.
“So, now’s his chance. No more spin, no more waffle, no more diversion, I know that will be difficult.
“He can either – this is the choice – he can either cut state pension or the NHS that national insurance funds, that’s route one. Or he can put up income tax, which one is it?”
But Mr Sunak replied: “We’ve just cut taxes by £900 for a typical worker, we’ve delivered the biggest tax cut for businesses since the 1980s, but while we’re cutting taxes Labour is already putting them up.
“In Wales putting up taxes right now for small businesses, in Birmingham putting up council tax by 21%, in London his mayor has put up taxes by 70% and this is just a glimpse of what they’d do if they got in power, a few weeks ago he finally admitted it to The Sun, what did he say he would do? I quote, he said ‘we would put up taxes’.
“It’s always the same, higher taxes and working people paying the price.”
