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One of Keir Starmer’s new Treasury ministers is a high-tax leftwinger who reportedly got here up with the widely-mocked “Ed Stone”.

The Prime Minister changed Tulip Siddiq with Emma Reynolds but in addition introduced newly-elected Labour MP Torsten Bell into the under-fire division.

Mr Bell beforehand suggested Ed Miliband and was the boss of the left-leaning Resolution Foundation suppose tank earlier than his election six months in the past.

He was stated to be the architect of the concept for the notorious “Ed Stone” which led to the then-Labour chief being ridiculed.

The 8ft limestone slab, which was in comparison with a gravestone, had Labour’s six pledges carved into it throughout the 2015 election.

Mr Bell, whose twin brother Olaf Henricson-Bell was not too long ago appointed as the brand new head of the No 10 coverage unit, additionally made the argument for a variety of tax-hiking measures throughout his time on the Resolution Foundation.

Conservative MP John Cooper stated Mr Bell’s appointment rang the “alarm bell” as he “heard him say this the other day: ‘Does the Chief Secretary agree that one of the lessons from global developments in recent days is that we must pay for day-to-day public spending through tax rises, however tough that is?’”

William Yarwood of the TaxPayers’ Alliance stated: “Everyone focusing on Tulip Siddiq will miss out that high tax fanatic Torsten Bell is now in the Treasury.

“He’s in favour of the employers’ National Insurance hike, the family farms tax, and wants to make you pay Capital Gains Tax when you die.

“He’ll fit right in with Reeves.”