There are fears Andy Burnham will hike taxes (Image: Getty)
Andy Burnham is set to launch a £38billion tax raid to fund a spending spree, according to Reform UK analysis. The prime minister-in-waiting’s pledges would mean Labour’s total level of tax increases would jump from about £66billion a year to more than £100billion a year, the report found.
This includes reforming the rates of capital gains tax and imposing National Insurance on rental income.
Reform’s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick told The Telegraph: “Andy Burnham has spent 20 years reaching for other people’s money – a death tax on family homes, a graduate tax on young people getting their first pay cheque, a £14billion raid on savings and investment, and new levies on everything from your parking space at work to your weekend away.
“Taken together with Rachel Reeves’s record, Labour could well raise more than £100billion a year of tax rises. If Mr Burnham disputes this, the remedy is simple: rule these 10 taxes out, by name, today.”
It comes as little is known about Mr Burnham’s policies as he gets set to enter 10 Downing Street within weeks.
Man ‘with stick left house linked to Widdecombe murder suspect and drove away’
A man put a “wooden stick” in a car outside an address linked to the Ann Widdecombe murder suspect before driving off on the morning she is believed to have been attacked, it has been reported.
The former Tory minister and ex-Reform UK spokeswoman was found dead at her home in Haytor on Dartmoor at about 11.40am on Thursday after sustaining serious injuries.
On Sunday, there was a substantial police presence at a house in Byrley Road in the Kimberworth Park area of Rotherham – more than 200 miles from the former minister’s home in Devon.
It comes after Devon and Cornwall Police said a 28-year-old white British man had been arrested on suspicion of murder in the South Yorkshire town on Saturday evening.
Mahmood to set out plans to change law to deport grooming gang leader
Shabana Mahmood will set out changes to the law to allow for the deportation of Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed.
The Home Secretary is expected to unveil proposals today to amend a 1971 law preventing the removal of Ahmed.
However, it is understood that Pakistan is unlikely to take him back.
Ahmed was released on July 2 after serving 14 years since his conviction in 2012 for rape and sexual offences against girls, some as young as 12. He had been sentenced to 19 years in prison.
The Government has been examining ways to deport him since his release last week. The 1971 law forbids the removal of a small group of Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK more than 50 years ago.