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Labour: £60,000 earners 'not rich' and not tax target Labour: £60,000 earners 'not rich' and not tax target
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People earning £60,000 are not "rich" and would not be taxed more under Labour, a senior party figure has said.People earning £60,000 are not "rich" and would not be taxed more under Labour, a senior party figure has said.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Rachel Reeves said Labour would expect the "privileged few" to pay more tax. Rachel Reeves said a Labour government would only raise taxes for the "privileged few" on £150,000 or more a year, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury is quoted saying taxes would only be increased for those on £150,000 or more a year. Meanwhile shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said Labour would guarantee all parents of primary school children "wraparound" childcare from 8am to 6pm.
The paper reported Miss Reeves, deputy to shadow chancellor Ed Balls, also wants the minimum wage to rise faster. The Labour plans have emerged ahead of the party conference in Brighton.
"I think the focus should be on those privileged few right at the top, and that's not people earning £50,000 or £60,000 a year," Miss Reeves told the Telegraph. Miss Reeves, deputy to shadow chancellor Ed Balls, told the Telegraph: "I think the focus should be on those privileged few right at the top, and that's not people earning £50,000 or £60,000 a year.
"We don't have any plans or desire to increase taxes amongst people in that band of income.""We don't have any plans or desire to increase taxes amongst people in that band of income."
A Liberal Democrat document leaked earlier this week suggested that party was considering increasing taxes for people earning more than £50,000. A Liberal Democrat document leaked earlier this week suggested the party was considering increasing taxes for people earning more than £50,000.
Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable said the proposal was not government policy and he did not know where it had come from.Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable said the proposal was not government policy and he did not know where it had come from.
Help for parents
On childcare, Ms Cooper told the Guardian Labour would be announcing "a guarantee to every parent that they will be able to get wraparound childcare from 8am to 6pm every day".
At present some schools offer breakfast clubs and after-school clubs to help working parents, but Labour says many of these have closed due to government cuts.
Ms Cooper told the paper Labour leader Ed Miliband would set out the plans - to be paid for with central government money - at the conference, which starts on Sunday.
On Friday Mr Miliband said he would reverse the so-called "bedroom tax" if Labour won the 2015 election.
Responding to Labour's plans in the Guardian, Treasury minister Sajid Javid said: "Despite promising 'discipline' on borrowing, Ed Miliband has shown he is too weak to deliver. Nothing has changed - it's the same old Labour."