The broadcaster said he had warned voters that Starmer’s Labour would target savers, claiming the party will come ‘after everything’.<\/p>\n
You can listen to the latest episode of\u00a0Alas Vine & Hitchens by clicking the player below or here<\/a><\/p>\n Hitchens acknowledged however that it is futile to blame a single party for Britain’s massive tax burden. He said that successive governments have overpromised and overspent on ‘rubbish’.<\/p>\n ‘It’s amazing that anybody bothers saving anymore’, Hitchens told columnist Sarah Vine.<\/p>\n ‘We were warned Labour would do this. Remember, during the last election, Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> said that what he meant by ‘working people’ was those that didn’t have any savings.<\/p>\n ‘At that point, people should have realised that they needed to move heaven and earth to not allow this government to come into office.<\/p>\n ‘These people will come after everything. The Tories were bad, but these people are much, much worse.’<\/p>\n Co-host Vine agreed with Hitchens, arguing that while the tax burden was also too high under the Conservatives, Labour’s fiscal policy risks breaking the ‘backbone’ of British society.<\/p>\n Hitchens was responding to reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering a seller’s tax on properties over \u00a3500,000, alongside inheritance tax changes<\/p>\n Peter Hitchens: ‘These people will come after everything. The Tories were bad, but these people are much, much worse.’ Listen here<\/a><\/p>\n ‘The backbone of this country is the striving middle classes’, Vine said.<\/p>\n ‘They do the right thing, they save money, they buy a house, they make sure their front gardens are neat, and they take their bins out.<\/p>\n ‘What Labour are doing is breaking that backbone. Once that’s gone, it will not come back.<\/p>\n ‘A fundamental British sense of fair play is being eroded\u2026 I think if you start coming after houses and pensions, people will start asking themselves, what’s the point?<\/p>\n ‘Why don’t I just put my hand out like everyone else and suck off the state’s teat?’<\/p>\n Their concerns about Labour’s tax policies come amid growing questions over the government’s financial management.<\/p>\n Despite record annual tax receipts, economists warn the Chancellor faces a \u00a350 billion black hole if Rachel Reeves is to meet her fiscal rules and restore the headroom she planned<\/a>.<\/p>\n Filling this new black hole has sparked speculation about where the exchequer could find the money ahead of the Chancellor’s Autumn statement.<\/p>\n ‘Why can’t the government just say, we can’t spend any more money on the NHS?<\/a>‘, Vine asked her co-host.<\/p>\n ![\"Hitchens](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101345961-15024399-image-a-2_1755859271516.jpg\")
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