A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes… KEIR STARMER rallied to the support of the rich today as he came under pressure to solve the budget crisis with a wealth tax.
The Prime Minister told MPs that “we can’t just tax your way to growth” after calls from within and without Labour to get the rich to pay more.
Green Party co-Leader Adrian Ramsay told him that he should stand by his pledge that “those with the broadest shoulders must bear the heaviest burden” and make it clear that meant the “ultra-wealthy.”
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Former Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford was also pressing the case for a wealth tax, joining former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, who had said at the weekend that the government should explore the idea.
Mr Drakeford told the BBC that Ms Reeves should look at taxing the online gambling industry and banking profits. “I think wealth taxes absolutely need to be looked at,” he added.
“We’re a sharply unequal society. We’ve become more and more unequal. The root of that inequality is the way that wealth is distributed across the population.”
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