CAP BUS FARES IN ENGLAND AT THREE POUNDS IN 2025 – Tax rises are needed to prevent “devastating” austerity in public services
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government will “run towards tough decisions” now to tackle economic challenges inherited ahead of the UK budget to restore crumbling public services and speed up growth.
Speaking in the West Midlands, England, before Wednesday’s budget, he announced capping bus fares in England at three pounds in 2025, an increase from an existing Conservative Party scheme which expires at the end of the year and caps the fare at two pounds.
Starmer said tax rises are needed to prevent “devastating” austerity in public services and “a disastrous path for our public finances”, inherited by the previous government.
“That’s why we are taking the decision on Wednesday to do it because it is the right thing to do and it is a right thing for our country,” he said.
The Conservatives have challenged the new government’s assessment of the public finances, saying they are a pretext for tax rises that Labour had been planning already.
