Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has warned that Liz Truss shows “all the signs of allowing another wave of Tory sleaze to fester” after it emerged that her No 10 chief of staff Mark Fullbrook was being paid through his lobbying firm.
Also accusing Ms Truss’s new administration of “miring itself in sleaze, not even a month into the job”, the Lib Dems’ Daisy Cooper claimed it was “proving to be nothing more than the same as Boris Johnson’s”.
However, the tax cuts announced in new chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget on Friday saw disagreement among the Labour Party as its annual conference got underway in Liverpool.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would reverse the decision to get rid of the top rate of tax for the highest earners, but would keep the planned 1p cut to the basic rate of income tax.
However, Andy Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor, said he believed both should go, saying: “I don’t think it’s a time for tax cuts, it’s a time to support people through this crisis.”
Liz Truss has refused to discuss fears raised by the Bank of England earlier this week that the UK is already in recession, with the prime minister insisting the downturn in the economy is “a matter for the Bank of England” when questioned on the matter by CNN.
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