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Andy Burnham signals a wealth tax is off the agenda for now (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by RubberDuck@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] RubberDuck@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Asked about wealth taxes on Wednesday, Burnham told the footballer turned podcaster Gary Lineker: “I don’t want to come in and sort of, if you like, create new divisions and pitch people one against another.”

Just keep the old divisions of pitching people against each other

He added: “I do believe we need a greater sense of fairness and people feeling that things are being done in the right way and a fair way.

People want actual fairness but not just a sense of it