Scottish Labour leader, launching Westminster manifesto, promises party will not raise income tax if it comes into power in 2026
Sarwar said change was a ‘two stage process’ for Scotland after 14 years of the Conservatives in Westminster and 17 years of the SNP in Holyrood.Sarwar said change was a ‘two stage process’ for Scotland after 14 years of the Conservatives in Westminster and 17 years of the SNP in Holyrood.
Sarwar told an audience of candidates and activists at the launch of Scottish Labour’s Westminster manifesto in Edinburgh, “we know change foris a two stage process” and that voters wanted to “turn the page … on 14 years of chaos under the Tories, and 17 years of failure under the SNP”. Launching the manifesto at Murrayfield Stadium on Tuesday morning, Sarwar said: “Thanks to the Tories, the average mortgage is now £2,000 higher per year. And thanks to the SNP, anyone earning £29,000 a year or more pays more income tax than people in the rest of the UK. Unbelievably, the SNP now think a nurse should pay more tax, but that oil and gas giants earning billions of pounds in profit should pay less tax.
Sarwar attacked “scaremongering” from the SNP that Labour’s plans would mean a return to austerity, saying: “It is now in black and white in the UK and Scottish Labour manifesto there will be no return to austerity under a Labour government.”
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