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.