Keir Starmer rules out nationalising Big Six energy firms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Citing the gap between children of wealthy and poor families being further exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, Sir Keir set out a plan to increase the tax burden of private schools.
48% : Sir Keir also did not rule out raising income tax if he formed a government as he set out his principles for fairer taxation.
45% : Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves had earlier told the Sunday Times she does not have "any plans" to increase income tax, adding: "I do think that people who get their income through wealth should have to pay more."
44% : "We are looking at tax, nothing is off the table, but we don't know what the state of the national finances will be as we go to the election," he told Marr.
34% : "What we don't want to do - whether it's income tax, or any other sort of tax, national insurance - is unfairly to hit working families, which is what this Government is doing."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.