Keir Starmer accused of hypocrisy for deal allowing him to avoid tax on pension trends now
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has a unique pension deal that allows him to avoid tax on his savings, despite being a vocal critic of the Government’s pensions shake-up for big earners, it was claimed last night.
Sir Keir criticised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s plans announced in last week’s Budget to abolish the tax-free limit on pensions savings, which had stood at £1.07 million, describing it as a ‘huge giveaway to some of the very wealthiest’.
But The Telegraph claimed that Sir Keir is himself exempt from tax rules he would apply to other workers who save more than £1 million, under a special arrangement with the Government from his time as Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales between 2008 and 2013.
He was last night accused of hypocrisy over the set-up.
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