Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer obtained an surprising kiss as he visited voters in Cumbria on Thursday morning.
Whereas one other lady handed Sir Keir a bunch of crimson tulips and informed him “good luck with all the things”.
Sir Keir spoke to voters concerning the cost-of-living disaster earlier than subsequent week’s native elections.
He spent Thursday morning in Workington, the place voters will quickly be going to the polls to pick out councillors for the brand new unitary authority of Cumberland.
He walked by the city centre with Labour council candidates Barbara Cannon and Mark Fryer, with many citizens stopping him to speak about points together with the rising price of dwelling.
Sir Keir stated: “Proper now, individuals are actually involved about their power payments, their gasoline payments, their meals payments all going up, their wages not going up and, when you can consider it, the Authorities has chosen this second, this week, to impose new tax on them – nationwide insurance coverage tax.
“So, folks can be taking a look at their pay slip this week and pondering, ‘I can’t afford my payments and the Authorities is now taking much more cash from me in tax’.
“I feel, if something, it demonstrates the Authorities is completely out of contact with the issues of working folks throughout the nation.”
He added: “What I wish to see is a windfall tax on oil and fuel corporations within the North Sea.
“They made extra money than they had been anticipating due to the excessive international costs and what we, the Labour social gathering, say is windfall tax on that – use it on to pay the power payments of people who find themselves struggling, significantly these which are struggling most, by as much as £600, so it’s a sensible plan on the desk.
“Additionally, we are saying, we wouldn’t introduce this tax hike that the Authorities has imposed this week.
“So, I’m afraid the Authorities has bought it fully improper. We’ve bought a sensible plan and what I need is an emergency price range so we will truly do one thing to assist folks combating their payments.”
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