Could Labour break promises with rumoured tax hikes? £20bn black hole explained | Caroline Wheeler 

Stop taking money from poor people in this country to give to rich people in poor countries.

Remember during the election that it was said many many times that Labour's plans didn't add up. How many times was Starmer asked about taxes? And we're how many weeks in?

They're politicians, of course they are going to break promises.

🇬🇧🇬🇧Milliband has just given £11.5 BILLION ( OF OURMONEY) to countries abroad to HELP THEM with renewables and climate change...whilst at the same time attacking the disabled on benefits

Why isn't lying to the electorate deemed a crime as it is the electorate lying to a judge or jury?

Labour break a promise.. no way, who could have seen that coming.

And the idiots that voted for them believing every word they said just made everyone's life harder 😂😂😂

Labour, we want to help poor people. Labour in power, we will put tax up. When will the uk people accept their government are just liars.

Of course Labour will take your money!! They start off by being nice and cuddly and then they change the rules - we’ve seen it all before, us older ones, but it sounds good . . .

Who did you think was going to pay welfare to the world.

Government finances have been in public domain well before labour came in nothing new here and labour know it .

Stop giving it to the Ukraine then

Giving 84 million of tax pays money away is going to help fill the black hole

Give them 12 month and they will be taxing the air you breath ..Khan already wants to tax peoples private driveways 😂😂😂😂

Sunak warned Labour will up £2000 tax! That's why I didn't vote for Labour but Tory!

Unfortunately UK citizens are overwhelmingly taxed and common people back bone is broken by high taxes and more taxes. Look people are queuing at food banks. Highly skilled people are leaving and low wages salaries for decades. Profiteering culture of corporate by exploiting low wages must be stopped

You voted labour in sow what you reap

"Could Labour break promises....." Of course they "could". The question should be "Will Labour break promises". Of course they will. And who will Reeves blame in her speech on Monday? The Tories, of course. And that's despite the IFS and OBR pointing out, ad-nauseum that Labour, in opposition and during the campaign, had free and easy access to the nations books - as indeed do I. Labour were clever in the campaign by stating that all of their manifesto pledges were fully costed, without ever producing the costings. I know they didn't produce the costings because I asked for them. Why are ministers now spouting lies? In addition to Reeves lying that she was shocked at the state of the finances we've had the Justice Secretary lying that she was shocked by the jails crisis, the Health Secretary lying that he was shocked by the NHS watchdogs performance and the Home Secretary lying that she was shocked by the cost of the Rwanda scheme. If they really are shocked then they are grossly incompetent and utterly unit for office. There is no excuse for them to be shocked. THE STATE OF THE NATIONS ACTIVITIES ARE AN OPEN BOOK. It is the responsibility of the Kings official opposition to be aware of the information and prepare to deal with its contents when in office. And not to enter office and lie through their collective teeth.

Labor getting ready to be out again in 4 years. Up my taxes you lose my vote.

Remember this is what labour supporters wanted

STARMERGEDDON! 👹

"Everybody had seen that as a red flag....." The irony is not lost on me. Comrade Joseph Starmer won't let us down.

Labour voters will not mind paying more tax🙃

Instead of penalising the people of the UK by raising taxes or cutting essential services and have our elderly suffer for whatever life they have got left. The first thing we should think about is to stop overseas aid, and stop giving illigal immigrants so much money before sending them back.

Yes tax the rich until there pips squeak 👍🏻

You all wanted Labour you obviously like being lied to.

Still got plenty of cash in the war chest.

This was all know months ago, they knew the deficit when they said they plans were fully funded.

Don’t know if the Govt audit is a prelude to tax rises in the autumn but think it’s right that they set out the full picture before moving forward. Last Govt already blaming Lab for early release prisoner program even though they created the crisis & Alex Chalk said he’d been raising it for some time & had already released thousands without probation, support etc. Ditto, pay awards, Rwanda costs, Bibby S & hotel costs, HS2, maybe raac in public buildings etc., all apparently higher than Tory Govt had revealed. They left all the compensation payouts to new Govt too - inf blood, post office, waspi, Windrush etc. The last Govt were v slippery on finance & will now blame Lab for high public spending. We should know what to judge them on & the closing balance sheet on last Govt & its spending commitments. This should actually be standard practice on transfer of power between Govts.

Be careful what you wish for! You wanted Labour, now deal with it!!

all those turkey liebour voters christmas has come early

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, except the sheep who voted them in.

The concept of contract law presents an intriguing scenario that seems to have been overlooked: Keir Starmer made a verbal commitment to his voters that he would not raise taxes and would address illegal immigration. While written contracts provide a documented record of these elements, verbal agreements can also fulfil the criteria and therefore be considered legally binding. Acceptance of an offer may be evidenced through words, actions, or conduct. The mere presence of acceptance suggests there was an offer to begin with. By increasing taxes and not addressing illegal immigration, he is in breach of the contract he made with his voters, which could make him liable in a court of law for breach of contract. However, before you argue that he cannot be sued because he is the government, it's important to note that the contract was agreed upon before he became Prime Minister.

Hold the MPs accountable

We know labor make excuses to put on tax last government bad is cover of tax ,all party is same after take over

Genocide in Gaza? What? According to what definition?

So is there nothing that discharges them from duty if they break promises?

In the UK the job of the Governments official opposition is to scrutinise what the Government is doing. That is what they are paid to do. It does not sound like Labour were doing that if they did not know the problems. Just a thought.

How about taxing the multi millionaire MPs who have stashed there money away. The conservatives are to blame for labours win

They have frozen income tax thresholds so they are getting a massive increase in taxes every year anyway!??

Starmer doesn’t care if he gets recorded saying lies or contradictions! He literally couldn’t care less! More shame on those that voted his party Labour in …. Shame on you

Remember Cameron and Osborne putting VAT up from 15 to 20% in the first couple of weeks of his government that's the British people

Labour only in power for 4 weeks? They brought it upon themselves by `hitting the ground running`, only they did not hit the ground they `hit the pensioners!` This was in their `foolish` rush to be seen to be busy and serious about their powers. If your `new in the office` you wait until your `feet are under the table` before taking momentous decisions.

Oh higher taxes for the working people to keep the grifters coming for a free life.

That why I voted REFORM UK

Obviously people did not watch shows like peston where he asked repeatedly how are you going to fund this that and the other starmer never gave an answer that should be enough reason not to vote labour but they did in droves like sheep we will be in trouble as usual with a labour government

Well they need to rise taxes to pay 7/8 million per day for the refugees sorry FREELOADERS

I Voted REFORM my family did tooo ... idiots voted Labour in ...

Of course, first thing labour do raise taxes and spend it, bankrupt the country last time.

Labour lieing to get more tax money to send Ukraine to help start a war 🤣 England is f*cked 😢

Tax is too cheap now. We take cash spend cash don’t pay tax 😂

Starma is a lier what a tool

Labour break Promises ... well , I did not see that coming .......

Uk is collapsing fast

To fund politicians lavish lifestyle... they all need to be followed and monitored... Labour will go out of UK politics forever never come back in power if they make life difficult for the tax payers its saturation point now...

Thanks LBC

WEF puppets one and all.

They knew what they were taking on but ignored question when asked how were they going to fun what they said in their manifesto but constantly wound not answer. So get on with what you said in your manifesto and STOP saying it's worse than you thought you had the figures as the opposition does receive from the sitting government. Get on with doing you job what you put in YOUR MANIFESTO

He's going to release the new arrivals give them benefit money free dental and NHS plus a house, 70, 000 of them... The County is collapsing.. Around us.!!!

I have voted both labour and conservative in my time and I am so angry at those people that voted for both parties because this whole discussion we’re watching it’s just a continuation of the same old status quo. Well done to those that can only vote based on their indoctrination. You are to blame for what has happened and what is coming. You have condoned the status quo rather than giving all of the major parties a bloody nose to say, no you have to up your game.

The subservients starting to realise

Vote lib dems next time

Not my PM 😡

Should ask Dido Harding to get a refund from her unbelievably expensive consultants. You'd have some change left over...

Buy gold what next your savings

My polling card went into the shredder, and I feel better for it. Life in this country is like playing bingo on the titanic. It doesn't matter what you win, you will lose everything eventually.

Sigh... capital gains and inheritance tax is predominantly going to hit the top 10%, not the 'general public'. They also never said they wouldn't hike capital gains, corporation or inheritance tax. They said they wouldn't hike VAT, PAYE or NI. Bad journalism from TR.

Taxes are good; they pay for not having a broken health/road/education/justice/benefit/everything system, and after 14 years of criminal mismanagement they're going to be needed. The trick is to tax people who can afford it, ie. the rich and corporations.

We all knew this, it’s not news. Labour raise taxes' it’s a fact of life. To be fair, the richest ( homes worth >£1m) should be paying more.

The only way they could get away with it would be one or more of these three options: 1. Apply an import tax on goods made in any country with inferior labour & environmental protections to the UK. 2. A tax on moving money out of the country - hitting multinationals and billionaires. 3. A wealth tax on combined worldwide assets in excess of £5M. 4. Cut overseas aid to ZERO.

I would like to point out that you are not obligated to pay any tax the government hand out so just remember that before you pay your taxes

Chances are even Reform would have raised taxes...but THEY pledged a 20k personal tax threshold. Give it these next 5 years of Labour people will be begging for a Reform government in 2029. Labour can easily do the same...but like the tories they just want families to suffer. They both know people are struggling yet both are more than happy to watch society fall.

No could about it, guaranteed certainly

Riots

Yes it’s what they do, simple .

NEVER!!!!!!!

If the government wants more tax revenue make businesses pay proper wages instead of suppressing wages ?

YES

Could 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

in all the history i have learnt the king puts u tax and this alll started when prince charles became the king

😂😂😂😂😂Could 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Derrrrr

Break the economy, expect the new government to notice. How long did the tories blame Labour for the economic inheritance when they (gained) power in 2010? I still heard people blaming Labour a decade (yes 10 years later). That would equate to Labour MP's still complaining in 2034. Structurally the economy is far weaker today than it was in 2010, so while they may complain, I suspect the Labour party has more integrity and class, and hopefully will fix many of the numerous holes in the UK economy rather than childishly moan and blame others for tory failings.

Liebour 🤥

Tax the ultrawealthy, not the average person.

If it’s a rumour don’t report until it’s actual fact. Otherwise that’s pretty disingenuous and quite slandering when that could be wrong and you know it could be wrong, hence your disclaimer of Rumour in the title.

Just tax the wealth. There's 160ish billionaires in UK. It's a no brainer.

You made a mistake in the title to this video: You put the word "Could" at the start

No tax on working people. Capital gains is income from other peoples work so they will be keeping to their pledge.

if they do have to, then it is the tories fault

She or whatever it is look like labour

Who cares as long as things improve….?

Well I hope so, it’s taxes that are going to make this Country great, I knew, and other sensible people new there would/ will have to be tax rises. Obviously he couldn’t tell the ordinary idiot in the street that.