Andy Burnham has no mandate to impose tax rises on the British people | Politics | News
Has anyone seen Andy Burnham? He will be Prime Minister in a few days, but he avoids scrutiny like the plague.
He barely showed his face, except for his daily run. He even banned journalists from asking questions during a speech.
He does not inspire confidence that he is a strong leader planning to turn our country around when he walks into Downing Street on Monday.
It all begs the question: Who in the world is he? What does it represent?
It is difficult to determine what Burnham actually believes. He made five U-turns in as many weeks during the by-election; This was enough to make Keir Starmer seem like a vision of stability.
Reform UK went back and looked at his record throughout his long political career to understand what we can expect.
We found that Andy Burnham spent two decades getting access to other people’s money.
These include a death tax on family homes, a graduation tax on young people getting their first paycheck, a £14bn raid on savings and investments and new taxes on everything from your parking space at work to your weekend break.
In total Andy Burnham supported or rejected new or higher taxes worth over £38bn.
Combined with the £66bn tax increases that Rachel Reeves has already introduced, Labor could achieve tax increases of over £100bn by the next election.
This works out to £3,450 per family; An eye-watering number. All this at a time when people are struggling as bills and prices keep rising. And when the tax burden reached a post-war record level.
Andy Burnham may have more charisma than Keir Starmer (it’s not hard!) but he’s clearly still the same establishment politician who believes we can tax our way to prosperity. He is another career politician who thinks it is acceptable to tell the public one thing in a general election and do something else in practice.
That’s why Reform is launching our summer campaign to stop Burnham’s tax increases.
We demand that Andy Burnham reject each of the 10 measures he has previously supported. He has no power to impose these on the British people.
Express readers can rest assured that Reform UK will always stand with those who have worked hard and done the right thing.
Robert Jenrick, Reform UK’s Treasury spokesman
