Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting of the Labour Party faces scrutiny over the party's manifesto, with questions raised about social care funding and potential tax increases. Streeting emphasizes the manifesto is not the sole basis for future spending plans and acknowledges the need for more ambitious policies. The Conservatives accuse Labour of proposing unfunded tax cuts, sparking a back-and-forth exchange between the two parties.
BREAKING: Jeremy Hunt has just torn up the Tory manifesto by admitting their tax cuts are completely unfunded. Rishi Sunak is Liz Truss all over again: crashing the economy and putting £4,800 more on mortgages. Don’t risk more Tory chaos. Vote Labour on Thursday 4th July 🌹 https://t.co/lVwaTp0zzB
BREAKING: Jeremy Hunt has just torn up the Tory manifesto by admitting their tax cuts are completely unfunded. Rishi Sunak is Liz Truss all over again: crashing the economy and putting £4,800 more on mortgages. Don’t risk more Tory chaos. Vote Labour on Thursday 4 July. https://t.co/2FAp4oZvVw
BREAKING: Jeremy Hunt has just torn up the Tory manifesto by admitting their tax cuts are completely unfunded. Rishi Sunak is Liz Truss all over again: crashing the economy and putting £4,800 more on mortgages. Don’t risk more Tory chaos. Vote Labour on Thursday 4 July. https://t.co/oI0oDmRr7o
You can’t spend the same money twice. Bombshell letter means Jeremy Hunt has been caught red-handed! The Tories’ manifesto is an unfunded borrowing bonanza that looks like Liz Truss on steroids. Another Tory win would be a nightmare on Downing Street the country can’t afford. https://t.co/aDD6gekItM
Oh what a surprise. Jeremy Hunt has been caught out, admitting the Conservative manifesto commitments are unfunded. When Liz Truss did this, interest rates went through the roof. The latest reckless Tory plan will put mortgages up yet again. Time for change
Labour accuses Conservatives of planning unfunded tax cuts https://t.co/S5lD63dgZ7
Labour accuses Tories of planning unfunded tax cuts https://t.co/9ZDGcZzzHJ
NEW: Labour have accused the Conservatives of proposing unfunded tax cuts after Jeremy Hunt suggested key manifesto promises on welfare had been announced already In a newsletter Hunt suggested crucial welfare cuts had been announced in the autumn https://t.co/5UrX4jH5db https://t.co/pquM5OynNT
🇬🇧 Labour Net Zero Plan's £4.5bn Tax Black Hole ▫Claire Coutinho says Starmer’s net zero plan is a ‘spectacular act of economic self-harm’ that will leave the UK ‘colder and poorer’ ▫@nickgutteridge ▫https://t.co/fTPTZaD4DA 👈 #frontpagestoday #UK @Telegraph 🇬🇧 https://t.co/jZjhBIrpyr
Shutting down the North Sea would be a triple whammy for the UK: jobs lost, higher taxes and investment destroyed. Labour's energy policy is a spectacular act of economic self-harm. https://t.co/KLcA6DXRPe
🇬🇧 Has Labour Let The Cat Out Of The Bag On Tax ▫Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says manifesto is 'just the start' of spending - and won't rule out council tax hikes ▫@ClaireEllicott1 ▫https://t.co/6Rb0Dlb3Ds 👈 #frontpagestoday #UK @DailyMailUK 🇬🇧 https://t.co/eQYCSzsJmt
Labour's net zero black hole? Tories accuse Starmer of £4.5bn budget shortfall as tax hikes loom https://t.co/t18MBpglli
🔴Labour’s oil and gas ban will create £4.5bn tax black hole, Energy Secretary warns https://t.co/V4CCnoQyCh
TELEGRAPH: Labour’s net zero plan’s £4.5bn tax black hole #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/ADZCRV0bka
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting wanted 'more ambitious' Labour social care policy https://t.co/xJUPa3Oz7k
Labour’s £2,094 tax hike for working families is just the start. Labour will spend and tax more in government than they’re letting on. https://t.co/bGtw30PLOc
🔴 Labour manifesto ‘not sum total’ of spending plans, says Wes Streeting https://t.co/VZoxqzwAQ3
'We've got plans on social care.' 'Just not a comprehensive plan to actually deliver...' @Lewis_Goodall presses @WesStreeting to respond to criticism that 'the Labour manifesto largely dodges the issue of social care reform'. https://t.co/Wnq8GTeJfC
“In Wales, Labour is… increasing council tax bands and [Wes Streeting] wouldn’t rule that out” says Transport Secretary Mark Harper “The overall council tax bill tends to be lower in Labour councils” points out #BBCLauraK https://t.co/pfJ2QnjgbL https://t.co/oSS2B8eN8j
"A manifesto is not a spending review... in our case [it's] a fully costed... set of promises we can keep" Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says Labour's manifesto doesn't necessarily represent all of the party’s potential spending plans #BBCLauraK https://t.co/pfJ2QnjgbL https://t.co/fMgIHCLcEp
Best interview #generalelection so far, @wesstreeting on NHS/care system, @bbclaurak, inc: -clear short term plan to make a difference -fair pay for care workers -get growth first, up health spend later -work with all parties on 10 year solution to health/care system #BBCLauraK
Wes Streeting admits he’d wished Labour had been more ambitious in its Manifesto on social care. No party has given this the time it really does deserve
Wes Streeting fails to rule out council tax rises/re-evaluations. Once again repeats line about no income tax/NICs/VAT hikes. Says nothing in manifesto requires tax rises, but doesn't offer the same cast-iron pledge to @bbclaurak
Wes Streeting says he wants to raise a care workers pay and that's a pledge in the manifesto ... but there's not a penny of funding for it the manifesto. So where's the money coming from? #BBCLauraK
.@TrevorPTweets: 'Are you saying there could be greater increases in NHS spending than in your manifesto?' @wesstreeting: 'Only if the conditions allow because we're not going to make promises we can't keep'. #TrevorPhillips https://t.co/fhIHlpTGAF 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/V0N1QlGUCt
"There's nothing in there about raising extra cash for social care", says Laura Kuenssberg of Labour manifesto Wes Streeting says "on funding, of course my ambition is to go further" When? How? Maybe an election manifesto would be a time to set that out ..? #BBCLauraK
Wes Streeting on Sky News this morning: “Where I disagree with The Nuffield Trust is the assumption they are making that this manifesto is the grand sum total of any future budgets and any future spending reviews. That is just wrong. That is not the way election campaigns work”
EXCL: Jeremy Hunt says Labour will plunge UK into "taxtopia" if Keir Starmer gets a landslide. Also says Nigel Farage will fail to destroy the Tory Party & it will be here "in 100 years time" I join the Chancellor fighting for political survival! https://t.co/rQrjsYvttw