Labour manifesto 2024 live: Keir Starmer would oversee ‘parliament of tax rises’, says

A Labour spokesperson said the party wanted the tax burden “for working people” to fall.

When asked by journalists to “admit that the tax burden will be higher” under a future Labour government, the spokesperson said: “What the costings set out is the ways in which this is a fully-funded, fully-costed manifesto.

“We have said that we are not putting taxes up on working people – there will be no increase in VAT, in income tax, in national insurance. We’ve also said that we won’t be increasing corporation tax.”

They added: “In the revenue that we are raising, there’s obviously the measures that we’ve announced and I’ve seen some of the figures that the Tories are putting around – within that they are including the money that we are getting in from tax avoidance, from the money from non-doms from the other measures that we’ve already announced in terms of raising revenue.”

The spokesperson also said: “Fundamentally, what we want to do is ensure that we are growing the economy and that will mean that we, you know, have the ability to ensure we’ve got more money in the economy through the growth policies that we have.

“But what we want to make sure is that for working people – we don’t want to see the tax burden on working people going up, we want to see the tax burden coming down on working people. That’s what Keir and Rachel have said throughout this campaign, throughout the process, and that remains their position.”