London: Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader, accuses the government of making ‘outrageous bribe’ to Scottish voters as he launches election campagin and pledges to use mansion tax on English homes to fund 1,000 extra nurses north of the border
Middle-class home owners in England will be taxed to help prop up the NHS in Scotland under a future Labour government.
Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader, revealed that Ed Miliband’s controversial mansion tax on properties worth more than £2 million will be used to fund 1,000 extra nurses in Scotland.
He said most of the money would come from homes in London and the South East of England, adding that the SNP will not be able to match the promise as there are too few “mansions” in Scotland.
Speaking in Edinburgh, Mr Murphy said: “We will get the money for 1,000 extra nurses not by increasing taxes and the pressure on the working class, but by introducing a new tax – a mansion tax on houses worth over £2 million most of which is in London and the South East.
“It’s a real win-win for Scotland. If Labour wins the election this May and win again in 2016 we will start recruiting those nurses on day one.”
