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The kind of people who don’t like Labour ’s tax plans are the kind who don’t like paying their fair share of tax.

Bankers and hedge fund managers no more welcome a Robin Hood Tax than the Sheriff of Nottingham wanted to run into its namesake on a dark night in Sherwood Forest.

Nor will millionaires and corporations who hide their wealth offshore like their tax returns opened to public scrutiny.

But then the teachers who sent children home with empty Smartie tubes so their parents could fill them with coins didn’t much like doing that either. If schools were not underfunded to the tune of £3billion it wouldn’t have been necessary.

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Doctors and nurses do not want to deny patients vital drugs or leave them on hospital trolleys for hours. They wouldn’t have to if they had the resources to do otherwise.

There is agreement between Labour and the Tories that schools and hospitals must be properly funded. Their argument is over where those funds should come from.

Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell think the burden should fall on the nation’s top earners, while 95 per cent of us should be spared.

They believe the City of London should pay £5billion a year more towards public services.

That will not go down well with bosses of the 15,000 companies located there. They will say they are the engine room of the British economy.

And they will be right. But in creating £45billion of wealth for the nation every year, they are also making wealth for themselves.

Financiers were responsible for the 2008 crash but it was the rest of us who bailed them out.

Yet the Tories handed the bill to those least able to afford it, with wage caps and benefit cuts.

So it’s time the victims of David Cameron’s austerity see some return on their investment.

Yet our ComRes poll today shows Labour lagging 18 points behind the Tories. And compared to Theresa May, Mr Corbyn’s personal ratings are dire.

This week John McDonnell promises full costings for all Labour’s spending plans. He must be sure they add up. Only then will voters believe Labour has a credible plan for government.

Only then might they begin to think, what’s not to like?