Rishi Sunak doubled down on the disputed claim that a Labour government would result in household taxes going up by £2,000.
When it was put to him during a BBC Panorama interview that he was repeating a “misleading claim”, the prime minister said: “There’s a clear choice in contrast at this election, our party, the Conservatives, are promising, and will deliver tax cuts, building on the tax cuts that we have already started to deliver, and have ruled out tax rises, that’s not what the Labour Party are doing.
“They are being open that some taxes are going to go up, but what they’re not telling everyone is that there is a £2,000 tax bill waiting for working families across our country if they are elected.”
The prime minister is being grilled by veteran political journalist Nick Robinson ahead of the Conservative Party manifesto launch tomorrow.
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