PMQs: Keir Starmer attacks 'out of touch' Rishi Sunak over tax rises

Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of being "out of touch" and raising taxes for working people.

During Prime Minister's Questions, the pair traded personal attacks, with Sir Keir using Mr Sunak's own wealth against him.

The Labour leader claimed the prime minister was "clueless about life outside his bubble".

But Mr Sunak insisted the government was helping households through cost-of-living payments.

Sir Keir accused the prime minister of presiding over a "low-growth, high-tax economy", after "13 years of failure" by the Conservatives.

He claimed wages, when price rises were taken into account, had fallen by £1,600 per household under the Tories.

Branding the prime minister "Mr 24 tax rises", the Labour leader criticised Mr Sunak for refusing to scrap non-dom status, which he said the PM and his family had personally benefitted from.

Last year, it emerged that Mr Sunak's wife had non-dom status, which allows people living in the UK to avoid paying UK tax on money made outside the UK.

However, Mr Sunak hit back saying: "The fact is the wealthiest pay more tax and the poorest pay less tax today than under... the last Labour government."

He accused Labour of wanting more spending and more borrowing, which he said would lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

The prime minister also pointed to increases to the national living wage and cost-of-living payments as ways the government was helping working people.

Labour's strategy has increasingly focused on attacking the prime minister personally, ahead of local elections in England in May.

The party has put out a number of adverts on Twitter in recent weeks targeting the prime minister, including over his record on crime and his wife's non-dom status.