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By Jessica Frank-Keyes Labour has been urged to consider bringing in “higher taxes on wealth” in a bid to raise revenue – despite Sir Keir Starmer insisting that his priority is “wealth creation”. Former New Labour advisor Patrick Diamond, who worked for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in Downing Street, wrote in the Observer that Labour would have to “look at radical ways to raise money” in part in case the party’s plans for economic growth are unsuccessful. Public policy professor Diamond and colleague Colm Murphy said a “newly elected Labour government should launch a commission on UK tax refor…

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