The Prime Minister who is in Liverpool for the Labour Party conference has warned that the Halloween Budget is “going to be tough.”
Sir Keir Starmer said that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been forced to make “difficult decisions” on tax and welfare spending, which comes as Labour is being slammed for their “cruel” cuts to the winter fuel payment by restricting it for those on pension credit.
Starmer told the Observer, “We’ve got £22billion to find and there are no easy decisions when you’ve got £22billion to find… We couldn’t pretend it’s not there… That means really difficult decisions.”
The Labour leader added, “I’m acutely aware that our public services are on their knees, and there will always be some that say there’s an argument for deep cuts … I ran a public service.
I know what cuts feel like. And I know that a lot of them are cut to the bone. And therefore we have got to make sure that our public services are functioning properly.”
“People have had a lot of tax rises and there’s not much more room for tax rises. That’s why I made the commitment in relation to working people,” he said.
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