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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker and Eleni Courea

Ex-Labour minister calls for wealth tax and public investment in June spending review

Louise Haigh and Andy Burnham
Louise Haigh and Andy Burnham will make their interventions in speeches at an event taking place on Saturday. Composite: Getty Images

Next month’s spending review must be an “economic reset” based on a bold wealth tax and higher public investment, the former cabinet minister Louise Haigh has said, as Keir Starmer faces renewed pressure from within Labour to change course.

Haigh’s comments came as Andy Burnham called for Labour to “re-establish itself unequivocally once again as the party of working-class ambition” with ambitious offerings on housing and education.

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