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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Starmer climbs down over claim stock owners not ‘working people’

Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to climb down from his suggestion that he does not consider people who have an income from assets such as shares of property to be working people.

It comes after Labour promised in its manifesto not to raise VAT, income tax or national insurance contributions for “working people”.

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