Westminster has no plans to increase English council taxes, Angela Rayner has confirmed, but she declined to say whether she would scrap the single person discount to the bill.

The Deputy Prime Minister, who is also the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, told the Commons her Government “is about making sure that working people are better off”.

But when asked about the single person discount, which reduces council tax bills by 25% for taxpayers who live alone, Ms Rayner did not commit to keeping it in place.

Talk’s Kevin O’Sullivan discusses the story further with The Sun's former political editor Trevor Kavanagh.

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