{"id":820982,"date":"2026-11-01T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820982\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:32:10","slug":"labour-minister-sparks-outrage-after-saying-britains-employers-are-not-working-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820982\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour minister sparks outrage after saying Britain&#8217;s employers are &#8216;not working people&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Because you have raised income tax on rents and interests, and at the end of the day, landlords and savers are working people, aren&#8217;t they?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Reynolds assured: &#8220;We have not broken the manifesto, because the manifesto committed to not increasing the income tax rate, VAT or National Insurance on employees, and we haven&#8217;t broken the manifesto in this budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Camilla then hit back, grilling Ms Reynolds a second time: &#8220;No, you said on working people. So there was a debate about the previous Budgets raised by Rachel Reeves breaching the manifesto, because they put up National Insurance for employers who could be classed as working people. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s the same argument here, isn&#8217;t it? If you raise income tax on rents and interest, you&#8217;re actually raising income tax on landlords and savers. Landlords and savers are working people as well, aren&#8217;t they?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because you have raised income tax on rents and interests, and at the end of the day, landlords&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}