Sky News — John Healey

    1:58PM Jun 6, 2024

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    the more desperate that Rishi Sunak is getting. He's lied to us before, on party gate. He's lied to us about NHS waiting lists coming down. Small boats are increasing and not decreasing. And he lied on tax as well. And we've got the highest tax burden for 70 years now in this country, which just adds to the cost of living pressures that everybody faces.

    Okay, but you're not gonna actually take any action about this. Or are you apparently broken? Broken the ministerial code?

    Well, that'll be, that'll be for the statistics authority to pursue for now. But we're, we're really clear that, I guess the trust in British government is broken. It needs to be earned again. And one of the reasons that we have been so careful to say these are our plans, these are the costs. This is how we'll pay for it, is that we have seen too much of gimmicks that make no difference to people's lives and broken promises. So Labour will not be raising taxes on working people. We will not increase income tax, VAT or national insurance. And where we have plans for first steps for change, we fully costed those. And if we need to find money,

    we have said, specifically how we'll raise it. So, for instance. You