UK government has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves Chancellor responds to calls for wealth tax on millionaire households

UK govt has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves.

Not addressed Tory legacy.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC

Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax

YouTube video by Garys Economics Why your government is about to raise YOUR taxes

The UK government will be forced to raise taxes at the Budget in October – but taxes on who? Here are my predictions

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Important stuff from @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social.

A windfall tax on banks could raise £11 billion - money that could be invested in our public services and a proper social security system. Money that could help lift children out of poverty.

#TaxTheBanks

#UCBill

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This is a message to Keir Starmer.

Almost 40,000 MORE children are missing out on the support they need because of the two-child limit than there were last year.

We urge the UK Government to scrap the two-child limit now.

Write to your MP: bit.ly/3GKJVfS

Don't let anyone tell you that there's no money, we are a £2.5 trillion economy.

The 50 richest families in Britain are worth £500 billion, half of Britain's wealth. Taxing the richest 1% in one year would give us £25 billion.

What is wrong with that choice? #WealthTax

Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, and UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill wi…

Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives.
#BinUCBill #DWP
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Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credi…

A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credit and personal independence payment bill.
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'This Government impoverishes the sick and the elderly to satisfy spreadsheets... Disability organisations from DPAC to Disability Rights UK are united in their opposition to Clause 2'

🗣️ @zarahsultana.bsky.social standing up for Disabled people today in the chamber

Every Disabled organisation is against this bill. Slashing the Universal Credit health element in half, pushing more Disabled people is unconscionable - especially when the Government could easily tax the rich.

❌MPs must vote against the bill today!

#BinUCBill

Urgent update on UC Bill - DPAC BREAKING NEWS The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in

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Four Disabled protestors outside Parliament. They have placards that read: Stop all benefits cuts and sanctions, Winvisible Charities don't collaborate with cuts, Winvisible Benefit cuts are killing us! Remembered: Elaine Morrall Single Mum of 4 killed by UC sanction, November 2017 Winvisible

We are right outside Parliament, alongside WinVisible and other Disabled campaigners, having our voices heard as the debate goes on in the chamber.

Who opposes this bill?
➡️Disabled people
➡️The general public
➡️The United Nations

It's time to #BinUCBill

UN committee sounds alarm over Labour's 'shameful' benefits bill The UN's letter comes as the government's welfare bill reaches its third reading in parliament and will be subject to another vote.

🚨UN committee sounds alarm over Labour's benefits bill:: 'It should shame the government'

A rare intervention by the UN as the watered-down UC Bill is voted on today for the final time #BinUCBill

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“If cuts go through on this scale, people will lose their lives. They will suffer immense harm. So let’s all understand that.”

Labour MP John McDonnell explains why he will vote against any cuts to disability benefits during today’s welfare bill reading.👇

MPs and much of the media have spun a false narrative about tonight’s Universal Credit vote. The PIP pause has created the myth the government has fully u-turned on its disability cuts. But £2 billion is about to be pulled from the sickest and poorest people in the country.

The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves | Novara Media Despite concessions, the welfare bill still means cuts and greater state intrusion into disabled people’s lives, writes the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People’s Rick Burgess.

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The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves | Novara Media Despite concessions, the welfare bill still means cuts and greater state intrusion into disabled people’s lives, writes the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People’s Rick Burgess.

#WelfareNotWarfare

Great article in Novara media by @rickburgess.bsky.social

Link to article here

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mage is on a white background photo image is in red and and white In red text it says Protect future claimants On a red background in white text it says Bin Universal Credit Bill In red text it says Wednesday 9th July 2025 4pm Old palace yard Westminster SW1P 3JY At the bottom of graphic are white logos of DPAC and Crips Against Cuts

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📢London Action

📢Bin Universal Credit Bill - Protect Future Claimants
📢Wednesday 9th July 2025
📢4pm
📢Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3JY

BUT no explanation behind the figures: life-impacting changes from austerity since 2010, rise in the pension age (esp steep for women), failing NHS, a pandemic, poor mental health services (it’s not only increase in ADHD/autism diagnosis) - numbers must always be interrogated.

After govt's 11th hour 59th minute climbdown over PIP it's time for Reeves to go back to the drawing board and look for fairer and more sensible ways to raise money - like a wealth tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires to raise up to £24bn a year

There are still big cuts to UC health support which need addressing.

And the process to get here was incredibly badly thought out and damaging.

But the DWP's genuine reforms survived, whilst HMT's biggest cuts were defeated.

That's the right outcome.
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The true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable.

Aside from the economic and procedural arguments (of which there are many) it just isn’t morally right to push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty.

The cuts must be scrapped.

📺My speech👇

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Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.

♿ We gave evidence to the APPG on Poverty and Inequality for their report on the disproportionate impact of poverty on Disabled people.

We highlighted the risk to Disabled people’s rights including the right to work and the right to social security.

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How much would a post-2026 Disabled claimant lose, with the Government’s concessions? Diagram shows total annual income for a single over-25 claimant, with UC and PIP daily living lower rate (with no descriptor at 4 points). Existing claimant Total: £13,983. Post-2026 claimant Total: £7696.

Why don't we support the Government's concessions on benefit cuts? Because:
Benefits are already so low that 27% of UK working-age Disabled people live in poverty.
Future claimants will face the same high costs as we do.
Tell your MP to vote against the bill in full:
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‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners Government concessions fail to appease disabled people’s groups, concerned that disabled people in the future will be condemned to poverty

"MPs must not condemn future disabled people to the poverty and indignity these devastating planned cuts will cause.”
Full comment from our CEO Tracey Lazard on the government's latest concessions on welfare cuts 👇

Write to your MP this weekend so they vote against the Bill and for the planned Labour amendment on Tuesday. The process is a chaotic shambles and will plunge hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty.

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#KillTheBill #TakingThePIP

The government is trying to rush the Bill through without proper consultation and democratic scrutiny. Any changes must include disabled people at its heart, not just those in receipt of PIP. The principle must always be #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs.
#DropTheBill #TakingThePIP 11/11

The Bill should be ditched in its entirety and the government should go back to the drawing board and consider reforms that treat all disabled and sick people – now or in the future - with dignity, enabling them to live secure and fulfilling lives. 10/11