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Wes Streeting pledges 'wealth tax that works'

Wes Streeting has backed the introduction of a "wealth tax that works", as part of his pitch for the Labour leadership. Streeting is proposing equalising capital gains tax with income tax, in a reform

Tax cuts and cost of living help proposed by Labour-linked groups allied to Streeting and Burnham

capital gains tax to pay for a 2p cut in national insurance.  Wes Streeting on Downing Street on Tuesday morning. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA The document also called for mayors

Labour must offer more than ‘better managed decline’ on economy, MPs urge

reformed council tax, higher rates of capital gains tax, and for the breakup of the Treasury – handing its budget-setting powers to No 10, while turning it into a new growth ministry. Yang, a member

‘It’s more incrementalism’: Starmer’s safe king’s speech fails to quell mutiny

reforms to growth, the state, and Britain’s relationship with Europe”. Starmer’s legislative agenda is made up of measures that have previously been announced but for which the government has not yet found time

Why Labour's London squeeze exposes a fragmented modern British politics

Wes Streeting. The Secretary State for Housing, Steve Reed, completes the quartet of powerful London MPs in the Cabinet. A significant percentage of the party's activists, and the members who choose the party