Sir Keir Starmer paid £99,431 in tax final yr, in accordance with a abstract launched by the Labour Party.The launch, printed on Friday, confirmed that the Labour chief paid £44,308 in revenue tax in 2022/23. He additionally paid £52,688 in capital positive aspects tax following the sale of a area in December 2022 partly owned by himself and partly owned by his father's property.The complete is greater than the £67,033 he paid to HMRC for the 2021/22 monetary yrThe paperwork additionally present the Labour chief earned £128,291 in his capability as an MP and the chief of the opposition. Sir Keir printed the main points after Rishi Sunak printed his private tax return final week, displaying he paid greater than £500,000 in UK tax final yr, as his complete revenue rose to £2.2m...

Rachel Reeves accepted a £10,000 donation from a supporter linked with local weather sceptic teams, shortly earlier than Labour ditched its pledge to speculate £28bn a 12 months in inexperienced vitality.Labour's shadow chancellor acquired the cash from Lord Donoughue in January to assist finance campaigning in her constituency, Leeds West, based on her parliamentary register of pursuits. Lord Donoughue, a Labour peer, is a former chairman of Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a thinktank based by former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson to look at the economics of local weather change.Read extra:Labour confirms U-turn on £28bn inexperienced spending pledgePolitics newest: 'Rishi's recession' jibe from Labour; chancellor says we have to 'stick with our weapons'GWPF p...