Budget tax hit fears for £100,000+ earners as minister won’t say they are Labour’s ‘working people’

A minister left open the door to big tax hikes in the Budget on people on more than £100,000 as he refused to say these high earners were “working people” under Labour’s definition.

Sir Keir Starmer ruled out increases to the rates of income tax, VAT and National Insurance in Labour’s manifesto, and appeared to further caveat this so it only applied to “working people”.