says that we, the labour party, are better than this. the labour spokesperson on the airwaves this morning lucy powell sounded a bit uncomfortable trying to defend it stressing that it might not be everyone s cup of tea and she didn t personally come up with a graphic itself. in the last hour, the shadow attorney general emily thornberry has been on radio saying she does not believe that there are any racist undertones to this poster but there has been criticism from the conservatives, sajid javid, the former home secretary says it is a champion, and lee anderson the vice chairman of the party has called it gutter politics. and the timescale that we are talking about does include some of the time when sir keir starmer, the labour leader, was not working in politics parts was not working in politics parts was the director of public prosecutions, so they are trying to question his record when it comes to justice. a controversial advert but at this point labour sticking by it, not taking
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there is a political dividing line between government and opposition, the labour party and lib dems are calling for a one off tax on big energy companies which the government is resisting because it could drive away investment in the energy sector. there is shadow chancellor, the labour spokesperson the chancellor was indulging in alice in wonderland economics. people can see it in their pay packages, people can see it when they get their bills. that the. their living standards, their incomes are not keeping pace with the rising cost of living. and, as i say, the tax burden now, the highest in 70 years at the end of this parliament, seven out of eight workers are going to be paying more in taxes because during the course of the two years that rishi sunak has been chancellor, taxes have been raised 15 times. and the cut in income tax, not next year, but the year after that, is not making up for the multiple tax increases that this government have imposed on ordinary working people up an
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