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    Home - UK News - Heidi Alexander says fairness will be government’s guiding principle

    Heidi Alexander says fairness will be government’s guiding principle

    Heidi Alexander says fairness will be government’s guiding principle

    Heidi Alexander says fairness will be government’s guiding principle

    • WTX News Editor
    • July 13, 2025
    • 1:14 pm
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    Cliff Notes – Fairness will be government’s guiding principle

    • Senior Minister Heidi Alexander hints at potential tax rises but says fairness will be government’s guiding principle in the upcoming autumn budget
    • Alexander states that while tax hikes were not discussed directly, the Chancellor will consider the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts when making budgetary decisions.
    • Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp interprets Alexander’s comments as indirect warning of tax increases, citing financial pressures following the scrapping of proposed welfare changes.

    Heidi Alexander says fairness will be government’s guiding principle when it comes to taxes at next budget

    Another hint that tax rises are coming in this autumn’s budget has been given by a senior minister.

    Speaking to Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander was asked if Sir Keir Starmer and the rest of the cabinet had discussed hiking taxes in the wake of the government’s failed welfare reforms, which were shot down by their own MPs.

    Trevor Phillips asked specifically if tax rises were discussed among the cabinet last week – including on an away day on Friday.

    Tax Increases were not discussed

    Tax increases were not discussed “directly”, Ms Alexander said, but ministers were “cognisant” of the challenges facing them.

    Asked what this means, Ms Alexander added: “I think your viewers would be surprised if we didn’t recognise that at the budget, the chancellor will need to look at the OBR forecast that is given to her and will make decisions in line with the fiscal rules that she has set out.

    Children being taken to hospital after another attack targeting children at a water tank by the IDF
    Children being taken to hospital after another attack targeting children at a water tank by the IDF

    “We made a commitment in our manifesto not to be putting up taxes on people on modest incomes, working people. We have stuck to that.”

    Ms Alexander said she wouldn’t comment directly on taxes and the budget at this point, adding: “So, the chancellor will set her budget. I’m not going to sit in a TV studio today and speculate on what the contents of that budget might be.

    “When it comes to taxation, fairness is going to be our guiding principle.”

    Afterwards, shadow home secretary Chris Philp told Phillips: “That sounds to me like a barely disguised reference to tax rises coming in the autumn.”

    He then went on to repeat the Conservative attack lines that Labour are “crashing the Economy“.

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