Labour’s tax rises will not hit workers’ payslips, minister vows

Bridget Phillipson told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg ‘we know the pressures that people are under’. Photograph: Jeff Overs/PA

Labour’s tax rises will not hit workers’ payslips, the education secretary has promised, as the government prepares to announce one of the most significant budgets in recent history next week.

Bridget Phillipson said on Sunday morning that the tax rises being planned by Rachel Reeves would not affect employees’ take-home pay, as ministers struggle to explain what was meant by their manifesto pledge not to increase taxes on “working people”.