Dawn Neesom has issued a stark warning over Labour’s tax plans, saying ordinary workers could be hit hard by proposals she described as “ridiculous.”
Speaking on GB News, Dawn shared research from the TaxPayers’ Alliance showing the average family will pay nearly £1.3million in tax over their lifetime.
That includes almost £600,000 in income tax, as she warned that these figures do not yet account for other major tax increases expected under Labour.
Speaking on the People’s Channel, Dawn said: “You think you’ve no money and then you look at the figures, you realise why you have no money.
Dawn Neesom blasted the figures from Labour
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“That research doesn’t include other major tax increases that are coming in. We don’t know what Rachel’s going to do yet.
“Every single day there is a whole list of stories about what she’s going to potentially target.
”But if she does touch the basic rate of income tax, which of course they promised they wouldn’t do, it would be the first basic rate since increase since 1975 and obviously breaches a manifesto promise.
“But this thing that they’ve suddenly discovered that anyone earning more than £46,000 more a year is wealthy.
“That includes HGV drivers. My dad drove lorries, if you’re an HGV driver, I want to know how wealthy you feel. It’s more rich.
“It’s just a ridiculous. It’s just a random number that they have plucked out of nowhere. And it involves people like chefs and teachers and just ordinary people.
“And considering now there are more ordinary people not working than there are working in this country at the moment. It’s frightening to think about where we’re going to end up with this Budget.”
Research from the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows that households are carrying a tax burden approaching record levels.
Since 1977, the average lifetime tax contribution has nearly doubled in real terms, meaning the typical household would need to work for more than 19 years just to cover their lifetime tax bill.
The most recent figures, covering 2022 to 2023, do not capture the full picture, as they exclude recent tax changes such as last year’s National Insurance cuts under the Tories and Labour’s first budget in October 2024, which introduced £40billion of tax increases.
The research defines a “lifetime” as 45 working years, from age 21 to the State Pension at 66, plus 15 years of retirement.
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rule out further increases to the already heavy tax burden.
He said: “These figures are a damning indictment of consecutive governments failing to get spending under control while demanding taxpayers hand over more and more to fund an ever-expanding state.
“Most households are now tax-millionaires, but rather than look at ways to reduce the tax burden, the Chancellor is widely expected to launch another devastating raid on household budgets.
“Rachel Reeves should rule out tax rises and focus her fiscal policy on significant spending cuts to ease pressures on hard-working taxpayers.”