Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out changes to council tax rates in his plans for government, as he mocked rumours that the Tories will lean on Boris Johnson to prop up their ailing general election campaign.
Pressed by LBC about his plans for council tax, the Labour leader said he would not “write the budgets for the next five years”.
And he mocked claims that the ex-prime minister – on holiday in Italy – could soon feature in the Tory campaign, joking that the move was a “third or fourth relaunch” of the Conservative election strategy, adding: “If you can’t even have a strategy that holds for six weeks you really don’t deserve to win.”
Elsewhere, nearly two thirds of voters said they felt confident that the Conservatives could not afford the policies set out in their manifesto, according to a poll.
An Ipsos survey found that some 62 per cent of respondents were not convinced that all the pledges outlined in the document were fully costed.
