Theresa May has insisted Tory tax plans have not changed after a senior cabinet minister signalled there would be no income tax increase for higher earners.

The prime minister said it was her party’s “firm intention to reduce taxes on ordinary working families”.

Sir Michael Fallon said in the Daily Telegraph that there would be no rise in income tax for higher earners.

But the 2017 manifesto scrapped a previous pledge not to raise VAT, national insurance or income tax.

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Speaking in West Yorkshire the PM said: “Our position on tax hasn’t changed. We have set it out in the manifesto.

“What people will know when they go to vote on Thursday is that it is the Conservative party that always has been and is and always will be a low tax party and it is our firm intention to reduce taxes for ordinary working families

“But when people come to vote, they know they have a choice between a Conservative party that always has been, is and always will be a party that believes in lower taxes – and a Labour party whose manifesto we know will cost ordinary working people.”