Keir Starmer and members of his shadow cabinet launched Labour’s local election campaign today with a focus on the cost-of-living. As many councils are due to increase council tax by 5% on April 1, Starmer said he’d freeze rates this year if he were PM. And he’d pay for it through an increased windfall tax on energy firms.
Starmer has compared this “tax cut for all” with the government’s pensions reform announced in the budget — which he is dubbing a tax cut for the richest 1%.
