Sir Keir Starmer has been accused by the Tories of performing a U-turn on a pledge to scrap a “particular tax perk” he loved on his pension.
The Prime Minister has his personal legislation, from his time as Director of Public Prosecutions, which exempted him from the £1 million lifetime allowance.
He had pledged to repeal the legislation as a part of plans to reinstate the allowance, which was scrapped by the Tories final yr to cease docs retiring early.
However the Treasury has now revealed there are “no plans” to take action in reply to a written query by Richard Holden, a former Tory chairman.
Mr Holden mentioned: “Sir Keir Starmer has (shock, shock) U-turned on his pledge to scrap his personal particular tax perk!”
The scrapping of the lifetime allowance, nevertheless, means Sir Keir’s private laws is already out of date until Labour revives its plan to reimpose the restrict.
Sir Keir was granted a particular “tax unregistered” pension scheme when he stood down as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in 2013.
However the cap was scrapped in April by then chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Sir Keir insisted he had not taken benefit of the tax break.
“Nor do I wish to,” he added.
Mr Holden this week put a written parliamentary query to the Treasury “to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if she is going to take steps to repeal the Pensions Enhance (Pension Scheme for Sir Keir Starmer QC) Laws 2013.”
Within the response, Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, mentioned: “The 2013 rules have been launched to make sure the Director of Public Prosecutions’ pension scheme is uprated in keeping with different public service pension schemes.
“There aren’t any plans to repeal the regulation.”