Starmer: 'We will reverse rich tax cut'

SIR Keir Starmer hit out at the Government's "wrongheaded" economic policies as he pledged to reverse the income tax cut for people earning more than £150,000.

The Labour leader, who said his party now had a belief it would win the next general election, said the mini-budget announcements by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had set clear political dividing lines.

He said the Tory policy was for the "rich to get richer" while offering little to ordinary workers but said Labour would reinstate the 45p additional rate of income tax for top earners which Mr Kwarteng abolished from April next year.

But Sir Keir said he backed Mr Kwarteng's promise to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20p to 19p.

He said people were facing a "very difficult winter" with supermarket customers "looking at the price of food and having to put it back down again" because of soaring costs.