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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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Meanwhile shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said Labour would guarantee all parents of primary school children "wraparound" childcare from 8am to 6pm. | Meanwhile shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said Labour would guarantee all parents of primary school children "wraparound" childcare from 8am to 6pm. |
| The Labour plans have emerged ahead of the party conference in Brighton. | The Labour plans have emerged ahead of the party conference in Brighton. |
| On Friday, Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would reverse controversial changes to housing benefit - which critics have called a "bedroom tax" - if Labour won the 2015 election. | |
| The government argues it ends "spare room subsidies" unavailable in the private sector, and that the £23bn-a-year housing benefit bill must be cut. | |
| 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. | 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 the 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. |
| The average annual earnings of full-time workers in the UK was £26,500 in the year to April 2012, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics in its annual survey of hours and earnings last November. | |
| Help for parents | 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". | 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. | 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. | 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. |
| 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." | 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." |