keir starmer ite s time we had a frank discussion about taxe -- whitehall departments are braced for yet another round of spending cuts justified by the need to keep taxe low and to bring down borrowing in the wake of the billions spent helping the country get through the -- when keir starmer is confronted by the accusation that to spend more requires either raising taxe or increasing borrowing what will he say -- except that starmer needs to talk about taxe and he needs to start soon because sunake s question about who pays for public services wone go -- blaire s timid lowtaxe manifesto or the corbynite doubling of capital gains taxe and proposal for a new incometaxe regime that cast people on incomes of £ and above as rich the world has changed and so has -- yet starmer is understandably wary of giving any signal that he might sign up to higher taxe the rightwing press believes that loyal readers while they might not have a high income have acquired some -- capture to secure office starmer is especially concerned by any association with corbyne s socalled taxe on success which is how the accumulation of wealth and income is often characterised -- residential while it would political suicide to ask for higher taxe on gains made by property owners to date there could a debate -- money to cut nhs waiting lists but whatever the strategy he must begin to discuss how some targeted wealth taxe are justified and a prerequisite of a fairer society