POLL OF THE DAY: Do you think Starmer's tax raid on pensioners is punishment for Brexit? - YOUR VERDICT
Pensioners are being affected by Labour's tax raids
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Sir Keir Starmer has insisted that the tax rises affecting pensioners are not a punishment for voting Brexit.
Speaking on a trip to the US to visit Joe Biden, the Prime Minister again refused to rule out the so-called 'widow tax'.
What that entails is plans to end the single person’s discount on council tax, which will affect millions of elderly people.
The single person’s discount knocks 25 per cent off the council tax bill of a person living alone, reflecting the fact that they use fewer council services.
POLL OF THE DAY: Do you think Starmer's tax raid on pensioners is punishment for Brexit? - YOUR VERDICT
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This comes after the House of Commons voted to remove the Winter Fuel Payment from all elderly people except those on pension credit.
Sir Keir was asked whether tax rises were a “punishment beating” for the fact that many pensioners voted Brexit and few vote Labour.
He replied: “No, absolutely not. Let’s just try to quash this now. The Budget is on October 30.
“So between now and then you are all going to ask me questions, as you did before the election – will you rule out X, Y, Z?
Pensioners are being affected by Labour's tax raidsGETTY “And knowing that I’m not going to say before the Budget what we’re going to do, you will then write a story saying ‘refused to rule out X, Y, Z’.
“I’m not going to say before the Budget what we’re going to do.
"That does not mean that I’m ruling in anything that you might be putting to me, it simply means, like every prime minister, we’re not going to reveal what’s in the Budget before we get to it. We did this in the election all the way through.”
A whopping 90 per cent of GB News members who voted in the poll think Starmer's tax raid on pensioners is a punishment for Brexit.
On the other hand, just seven per cent of those who voted do not think it's a punishment, while three per cent are unsure.