About 120 British millionaires, including broadcaster and former footballer Gary Lineker, write to Andy Burnham urging the incoming Prime Minister to make them pay more tax. The message is coordinated through the Patriotic Millionaires group and asks for higher taxation on wealthy individuals’ wealth, with one line reported as: “tax us.”
The intervention comes as Burnham announces policies aimed at easing the cost of living. The sources describe the group’s position as a voluntary request for increased contributions rather than a response to a specific existing tax change. While the articles emphasize the group’s composition and the prominent involvement of Lineker, they also frame the letter as a direct appeal to the new government to consider tax rates affecting millionaires.
Overall, the reports agree that the letter is a coordinated statement from a large group of affluent people to the new Prime Minister, calling for changes that would result in them paying more tax, timed alongside the new administration’s broader cost-of-living agenda.
