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Rishi Sunak’s pension pledge | Poor immigration logic | Sir Mark Elder’s last hurrah | Reviving Cockney rhyming slangI’d like to clarify the misinformation about pensioners not currently having to pay tax on their state pensions that has been circulating. In the current financial year, I will, for the first time, be paying tax on my state pension (my sole income) as a result of the tax threshold policy. Therefore Rishi Sunak’s claim in the leaders’ debate (Report, 4 June) that pensioners will pay income tax for the first time under a Labour government is incorrect.Maria KraithmanHemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire• A Nigel Farage supporter in Clacton says: “We’ve got to get to grips with immigration. We’ve got people who can’t get hospital appointments” (Report, 4 June). Have they been near a hospital recently? Ours has a high proportion of immigrants working there, in every type of healthcare. We’d not have a hospital without them.Sarah SheilsYork Continue reading…
Rishi Sunak’s pension pledge | Poor immigration logic | Sir Mark Elder’s last hurrah | Reviving Cockney rhyming slang
I’d like to clarify the misinformation about pensioners not currently having to pay tax on their state pensions that has been circulating. In the current financial year, I will, for the first time, be paying tax on my state pension (my sole income) as a result of the tax threshold policy. Therefore Rishi Sunak’s claim in the leaders’ debate (Report, 4 June) that pensioners will pay income tax for the first time under a Labour government is incorrect.
Maria Kraithman
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
• A Nigel Farage supporter in Clacton says: “We’ve got to get to grips with immigration. We’ve got people who can’t get hospital appointments” (Report, 4 June). Have they been near a hospital recently? Ours has a high proportion of immigrants working there, in every type of healthcare. We’d not have a hospital without them.
Sarah Sheils
York
