Starmer declines to rule out wealth tax as Badenoch brands him ‘weak’ - The Conservative leader claimed the Prime Minister had been ‘forced into a series of chaotic U-turns’ and failed to prevent doctors’ strikes.

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out prolonging a freeze on income tax thresholds for the rest of this parliament, as the UK Labour government battles to fill a fiscal hole some economists say could be more than £20bn.

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out extending the freeze on tax thresholds, which has seen millions of people dragged into paying higher rates. The freeze on National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds,