Labour minister claims Budget will be ‘most honest’ in years

Labour minister claims Budget will be 'most honest' in yearsToday, BBC

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00:00You can't answer the question. What are people called who are making money and going to pay

00:06more tax if they are not working people? Can you name them?

00:09I think you're going to get the most honest budget on Wednesday that you've had in many

00:14years. We're going to end the fiscal fiction of things being announced which had no money

00:19set aside for them.

00:21Why can't you answer the question?

00:22Things like the infected...

00:23Why are you answering? Sorry, I have to say, you're answering about what's going to be

00:26in the budget. Also, we've been told repeatedly, let's not speculate, let's wait for the budget.

00:32So I'm asking you something completely different. I could read to you what landlords said after

00:36they heard what Sir Keir Starmer had to say the other day. They talked about the fact

00:41that he was stoking misconceptions about them. It's simply not true that landlords are not

00:45working people. When the Prime Minister said he didn't recognise them as much, Ben Beedle,

00:49the Chief Executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said rather than stoking

00:53misconceptions, the government needs to focus instead on the key challenge in the rental

00:58market.