LABOUR MP Richard Burgon has condemned Tory class-war economics after top Conservatives hinted at further public service cuts.

Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry said the government was looking to “trim fat in terms of government expenditure,” adding on Sky’s Sophy Ridge: “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that the public sector should look at its expenses in the same way that every single household is doing.”

The chairman’s hints were echoed by Prime Minister Liz Truss on the BBC, who said she was looking to “get value for money for the taxpayer” and refused to rule out cuts, and by “Levelling Up” Secretary Simon Clarke, who wrote in the Times that British people “enjoyed a very large welfare state,” were “less productive relative to our peers” and needed to look at how “that is in full alignment with a lower-tax economy.”

But Leeds East MP Mr Burgon told the Morning Star that “our public services need extra investment, not further cuts.

He condemned “free-market fundamentalist Tories … pushing class-war economics on behalf of the 1 per cent at the same time as a push for austerity in our public services, which are already in crisis.”

Instead the country needed “a real wealth tax and a full windfall tax which ensures the oil and gas giants don’t keep a single penny of excess profits. 

“A wealth tax of 10 per cent on wealth over £5 million could raise over £100 billion for a social emergency fund to help get people through this crisis.

“We need to build the biggest possible mass movement for these kind of policies,” he said.