Richard Burgon MP

Today I’m delivering my open letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor calling on them to: Tax Extreme Wealth - Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis.

There’s still time to join over 20,000 others and add your name before I take it to Downing Street. 👇
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The Budget must tax extreme wealth and use this to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

Thousands have already backed my open letter to the Prime Minister to do this.

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Reform’s former leader in Wales Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10 years after accepting pro-Russia bribes of tens of thousands of pounds.

Reform spokespeople previously suggested their leaders didn't really know Gill.

Despite all these pictures of him with Nigel Farage.

I see right-wing journalists are attacking me again over a wealth tax.

Here's a simple fact they never mention:

British billionaire wealth has more than DOUBLED since 2010

▪️2010: £250 Billion
▪️2025: £620 Billion

Yet workers' wages have been flat.

Tax extreme wealth, not workers!

In Parliament today I said the asylum announcement scrapes the bottom of the barrel and is a desperate attempt to copy Reform.

We should be taking the fight to Reform - not trying to outdo them.

A red bordered graphic saying: Raising income taxes on working people would’ve been totally wrong - so it’s good if that's been dropped. But there must be no other proposals that leave ordinary families paying higher taxes. Here's 3 fairer alternatives: A Wealth Tax of 2% on assets over £10m → £24bn per year Equalising capital gains & income tax → £12bn per year Windfall Tax on banks → £14bn per year

Today I joined the moving Remembrance Sunday service at Whitkirk Cenotaph.

I laid a wreath for all those from East Leeds who lost their lives in war. We remember them, the grief of their loved ones, and continue to seek a world of peace, free from the pain and horror of war.

Open Letter to the PM and Chancellor: Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget - Fund Emergency Action to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis I've added my name to Richard Burgon MP's open letter to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor - calling on the Government to Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget and to fund emergency Action on the cost o...

Ahead of this month’s Budget, I’ll be delivering this open letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor.

It calls on them to tax wealth to fund urgent action on the cost-of-living crisis.

Thousands have already signed — add your name today.
🔗 bit.ly/TaxWealthAutumnBudget

Nigel Farage just voted to water down workers' rights.

We were voting on the Employment Rights Bill - the biggest strengthening of workers’ rights in years.

But of course Farage sided with the bosses. Again.

Brilliant win for socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York!

His relentless focus on tackling the cost of living crisis and making the wealthy pay is exactly what people need.

A powerful voice against Trump’s hate and Israel’s genocide.

A boost for the left everywhere!

Nigel Farage’s supporters don’t like it when you point out that he’s talking about cutting the minimum wage for young workers.

Or that he’s pocketed over £1 MILLION from outside "work” since the election.

Because it exposes the truth about this self-styled “man of the people”.

Nigel Farage is now talking about cutting the minimum wage for young people.

Once again, instead of going after the super-rich, he attacks ordinary workers.

So much for being a man of the people.

We can’t let Farage strip away the rights that help ordinary people stand up to the rich and powerful.

Nigel Farage just tried to bring a Bill to pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights.

I voted against it - and the whole thing was rejected.

We can’t let Farage strip away the rights that help ordinary people stand up to the rich and powerful.

Open Letter to the PM and Chancellor: Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget - Fund Emergency Action to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis I've added my name to Richard Burgon MP's open letter to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor - calling on the Government to Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget and to fund emergency Action on the cost o...

Today I’ve launched the next stage of my Wealth Tax Campaign — calling on the Government to Tax Wealth at the Budget to fund emergency action on the cost of living crisis.

I’ll be delivering this open letter to the PM and Chancellor.

Add your name 👇
bit.ly/TaxWealthAutumnBudget

The historic loss of Caerphilly is the direct result of the disastrous direction taken by the Labour leadership.

To rebuild support, we need to start governing with real Labour values.

That means taxing the very wealthiest and taking urgent action on the cost-of-living crisis.

Picture of MPs holding signs saying divest from occupation, divest from genocide and divest from apartheid.

Most people would be horrified if their pension was invested in companies linked to Israeli war crimes.

Great to join fellow Labour MPs in support of Pensions Bill Amendment by Neil Duncan Jordan to divest LGPS pension funds from firms complicit in Israel's crimes against Palestinians.

A graphic of the motion that reads That this House welcomes the proposal from leading tax experts for the introduction of an annual wealth tax of 2% on individual assets over £10 million, which could raise an estimated £24 billion each year; believes that such a measure would represent a fairer alternative to cuts and could provide urgently needed resources to tackle the poverty and inequality that blights our society; and calls on the Government to bring forward proposals for such a tax on extreme wealth ahead of the next Budget.

BREAKING: Over 40 MPs now back my Parliamentary Motion for a Wealth Tax!

UK billionaire wealth has more than doubled since 2010:

▪️2010: £250 Billion
▪️2025: £620 Billion

You're getting poorer because they're taking more and more.

Ask your MP to back my Wealth Tax Motion ahead of the Budget.

Food prices are out of control.

From free school meals to a Windfall Tax on profiteering companies, we need an urgent debate on Government action to bring prices down and to support families.

Food price caps were seriously discussed a few years ago – and must be again now.

Today I spoke at the RMT demo against the threat of deportation of hundreds of rail workers - some in just a few weeks.

The Government’s rushed visa changes reclassified which jobs count as “skilled,” with no consultation or vote.

It’s wrong, cruel, and must be dropped.

ID cards are a threat to civil liberties, to data security & risk people’s private info being handed to US tech giants for profit.

They’re also a total waste of time and money when the government should be focused on people's real priority: tackling the cost of living crisis.

In Parliament today.

Photo saying: Nigel Farage has raked in over £1 MILLION from outside “work” since the General Election. That’s way more than any other MP - and twice as much as the next highest, the super-rich Rishi Sunak. So much for being a man of the people. As I’ve long said: ban ALL MPs’ second jobs.

Richard Burgon speaking at the national march for Palestine on 11 October.

Today I spoke again at another huge national march for Palestine.

The ceasefire has given Gaza a chance to breathe. But we will not stop until there's real peace and justice.

Until those guilty of genocide face justice.

Until Israel’s occupation ends.

Until Palestine is free.

Various photos of Reform’s former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, with Nigel Farage.

Just a reminder that Reform’s former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has admitted taking bribes from Russia while an MEP.

Yet Reform spokespeople have suggested their leaders didn't really know Gill.

So here's a few pictures of him with Nigel Farage.

This follows the wholly disproportionate and deeply troubling decision to designate Palestine Action - a group that posed no risk to the public - as terrorists.

I voted against that decision in Parliament and again call on the Government to immediately overturn it.

Instead of vital police resources being used to keep communities safe, we have the absurd situation where they're being wasted on arresting peaceful protesters: people simply holding signs and exercising their democratic rights to oppose genocide.

The two-child benefit cap is one of the cruellest Tory policies.

That’s why I voted to scrap it - and lost the Labour whip for doing so.

It’s great to see a growing consensus to end it. Along with other MPs, I’ve written to the Prime Minister demanding he scraps it immediately.

At PMQs today, I told the Prime Minister that to stop a Reform Government we need a return to real Labour values.

That means real action to tackle poverty and inequality, a Wealth Tax on the super-rich, and an ethical foreign policy that takes a strong stand against war crimes.

The toxic rhetoric around migration in recent weeks has emboldened far-right thugs - who are now abusing and intimidating people in the street they see as “foreign”, who are now vandalising their homes, businesses and places of worship with racist graffiti, and who are spreading division in our communities. As I've said before, I believe the scapegoating of refugees and migrants for society’s problems is totally wrong. The real responsibility for the deep problems we face lies with the super-rich and those in power who have profited from our rigged economic system, who sold off our public services and attacked workers’ rights. They - not refugees and migrants - have driven down wages, starved our NHS, and fuelled the housing crisis. That’s why I’m campaigning for a wealth tax on the super-rich, to build huge numbers of council houses, to bring water and energy back into public ownership and to kick the profiteers out of our NHS. But whatever people’s views, we should all agree on this: racist intimidation, violence, attacks on people and their property and other criminal activity are completely unacceptable. Every politician has a duty to speak out, to condemn this far-right thuggery, and to do all they can to stop the stoking of the hatred that fuels this wave of far-right violence and intimidation.