Mandelson files: Top Starmer ally moaned ‘every meeting is about who we can tax’

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One of Keir Starmer’s closest allies hit out at Downing Street’s thinking on economic policy as he complained about the government’s push to tax people to pay for more benefits, the latest Mandelson files have revealed.

Pat McFadden told Peter Mandelson in May last year that meetings he attended centred on questions about hiking taxes https://www.cityam.com/mandelson-files-top-starmer-ally-moaned-every-meeting-is-about-who-we-can-tax/">[...]