Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Labour "kept to our manifesto" promises despite raising taxes in the budget - as he asked "everybody to contribute".

The morning after the chancellor announced her record-breaking tax-raising budget, the prime minister told Sky News political editor Beth Rigby the government had "done the least possible we can" to impact people and had "done it in a fair way".

He said it was "not true" his government has misled the public after promising not to raise taxes again after last year's budget.

And he refused multiple times to say he had broken his manifesto promise not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT "on working people".

"We kept to our manifesto in terms of what we've promised," he said.

"But I accept the challenge that we've asked everybody

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