Keir Starmer has vowed to reinstate the top tax band for people who are paid more than £150,000 a year while keeping the planned cut in the basic rate of income tax, minutes after another senior Labour figure said both should be restored.
On the first day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Starmer said it was “hugely divisive” of ministers to hand out a tax cut to the extremely well paid, and said he would reverse the scrapping of the additional rate – 45% – on the highest earners.
