LABOUR’S latest definition of working people, that ever decreasing group that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves say they won’t tax, is apparently people who work but don’t have enough to write a cheque if an unforeseen problem occurs.

Train drivers are on something like £70,000 plus a year, a lot more if they deign to do more than four days a week. One must assume then that they can afford to write that cheque, which takes them to that elevated status above ‘working people’.

The ‘working people’ that is Labour’s priority to protect from tax rises. So if that is the case why was one of Labour’s first acts in office to throw thousands of pounds a year into the pockets of train drivers and not ‘working people’? Strange.

Paul Morley

Long Preston