Labour is engaging in a “class war” by insisting that it wants to help ‘working people’ when it means the ‘working classes’, former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lamont has said. The peer – who was Norman Lamont was Chancellor from 1990 to 1993 – told Chopper’s Political Podcast that Labour were “not above stirring up a bit of hatred now and then” ahead of next week’s Budget which is set to include large tax rises. Lamont also expressed his “astonishment” at the apparent absence of business experience among Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet and said the Government appeared to be “desperate to find rev…
