Labour writes to Treasury over ‘misleading’ social media posts on tax changes
A shadow minister has written to the Treasury’s top mandarin to raise concerns that the department has been issuing “misleading” claims on tax.
Labour’s James Murray, the shadow financial secretary, queried whether posts on social media about the reduction to national insurance complied with civil service and legal guidelines around Government messaging.
It comes as a number of posts on X, formerly Twitter, by the HM Treasury account about the 2p cut in national insurance had “Readers added context” notes applied by users of the social media platform.
Under one post stating that
