Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng hints more tax cuts to come as mini-budget 'just the start' 🗣️ 'I want to see people retain more of their income because I believe that it’s the British people that are going to drive this economy,” he said.
A wave of further action to kickstart the economy is understood to be on the way, and could see changes to immigration rules and the easing of theBut the Chancellor refused to be drawn on whether these changes were in the pipeline.
When it was put to him that his mini-budget “favour overwhelmingly people at the very top”, he told Ms Kuenssberg: “They favour people right across the income scale.” Sir Keir Starmer used speeches to activists on the eve of the Labour conference opening in Liverpool to denounce the “shower” in Downing Street, who he accused of “taking the piss” by offering tax cuts to the rich while giving less support to poorer households.
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