Starmer has signed up to the UN’s agreement to raise taxes in the UK – The Expose
Starmer has signed up to the UN’s agreement to raise taxes in the UK
On Saturday, The Telegraph published the article ‘Starmer endorses UN’s high-tax manifesto’ about the UK government endorsing the United Nations’ Sevilla Commitment, a global agreement that promotes higher taxes on the wealthy, alcohol and fossil fuels.
Essentially, the UN is attempting to fund its nefarious Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals through domestic taxes.
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According to The Telegraph, the UK government, led by Sir Keir Starmer, has endorsed the United Nations’ (“UN’s”) Sevilla Commitment, a global agreement that calls for greater environmental levies and “gender-responsive taxation.” The Conservative Party has criticised it for potentially making it harder for a future government to reverse Labour’s tax rises.
The agreement, signed by 192 countries at a summit in Seville, Spain, contains 42 references to taxation, including specific mentions of taxes on “high net-worth individuals,” tobacco, alcohol, natural resources and pollution, as well as promoting higher taxes on unhealthy products such as sugary drinks.
The commitments in the deal are not legally binding, but critics have warned that signing up to the pact shows the Government is locking Britain into a permanent course of ever higher taxation, with the Conservatives accusing Labour of “outsourcing tax policy to organisations that don’t reflect the priorities of the British people.”
The agreement encourages the “broadening of the tax base,” including a crackdown on the “informal sector,” which includes cash-in-hand payments, and suggests specific tax rises that countries should introduce, such as effective taxation of natural resources and taxes on tobacco and alcohol.
A Government spokesman has stated that the agreement is not legally binding and that UK tax-setting powers are for the Chancellor and the Chancellor alone, with no plans to cede tax-setting powers to an international organisation, and that the agreement is designed to support developing countries in mobilising more finance for their own sustainable development.
The UK has also signed up to several declarations drawn up during the conference in Seville, including one that promotes higher taxes on unhealthy products and another that focuses on efforts to remove “harmful” and “ineffective” tax reliefs, amid fears that Labour is lining up a series of fresh tax raids in the autumn to fill an estimated £30 billion “black hole.”
The US, under Donald Trump, had pulled out of talks on the pact due to objections to tax measures and references to climate, gender equality and sustainability, highlighting a break with the UK’s participation in the agreement.
Labour MPs are openly pushing for new wealth taxes, and “sin taxes” on alcohol, sugary and salty foods, and gambling could also be considered, as the agreement comes amid concerns about the impact of the deal on the UK’s tax policy and the potential for increased taxation.
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The Sevilla Commitment
The Sevilla Commitment, also known as the ‘Compromiso de Sevilla’, is a document from the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (“FFD4”), adopted on 17 June 2025, by UN member states. It was adopted by consensus, following the United States’ withdrawal from the preparatory process, which allowed the remaining parties to reach an agreement.
Related: Executive Secretary affirms UNECE support to implement Sevilla Commitment on development financing, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 3 July 2024
The document represents a collective commitment to accelerate progress toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) by 2030 and emphasises the need to mobilise financing at the required scale.
The Sevilla Commitment outlines various commitments across different areas, including private finance, development cooperation and debt management. It includes goals such as reducing remittance costs, supporting the establishment of an international investment support centre for the Least Developed Countries (“LDCs”) – in other words, bribing and entrapping LDC governments to implement the global agenda – and increasing the mobilisation of private finance through risk-sharing and blended finance instruments.
It also calls for scaling up official development assistance (“ODA”) from what the UN deems to be richer countries and improving climate finance, aiming to reach at least $1.3 trillion per year by 2035.
Related: Charles “The Great Reset” King demands $5 trillion per year to tackle climate change
In globalese, “development” refers to metrics to measure populations. The word “development” in “official development assistance “and “Sustainable Development Goals” does not refer to improving the lives of people through, for example, better access to healthcare or nutritional food; the “Sustainable Development Goals” refer to “sustainable population goals” or, put another way, control of populations and population levels according to pre-determined metrics.
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In the case of ODA, or “global aid,” it is a transfer of money and resources from predominantly richer countries to developing countries. As we noted in a previous article, the classification of which countries are “richer” is spurious. China, for example, is not classified as one of the “richer” countries, or high-income economies, that should participate in giving 0.7% of their GNI as aid. Instead, China, the second largest economy in the world, is classified as a “developing” country, or an “upper middle-income” country, that is eligible to receive aid.
Related: What is China’s population, and why does it matter?
UN News marketed the Sevilla Commitment by calling it a “vital step to rebuild trust in global cooperation.” It must be some sort of joke, surely?
In an interview with UN News, a senior UN official, Marcos Neto, said, “We are five years away from the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]. One of the biggest obstacles to this shared agenda of global solidarity is financing. In other words: where is the money? Where will the money come from?”
It doesn’t take much to work out that the money is going to come from taxpayers working in the “richer” nations. Taxpayers are funding not only their own demise but also the demise of people in “poorer” nations.
No sooner had Neto asked where the money to fund the UN’s SDGs would come from, he contradicted himself. “The Sevilla Commitment is a document that makes it clear that this is not about a lack of money – it’s about aligning public and private capital flows toward those Goals, toward the Paris Agreement, and toward all other international commitments” he said. Snakes have forked tongues.
The absence of the United States from the summit has been noted as a diplomatic setback. It’s a shame the UK government didn’t display the same global leadership global leadership and extricate itself from the UN’s plans that will enable oligarchs who control the UN to implement their plans, and get richer while doing so, at the expense of taxpayers.
Global Policy has summarised the contents of the Sevilla Commitment HERE, which has a shocking overreach into nations’ sovereignty, and you can read the document, which the UK government has endorsed without citizens’ permission, HERE.
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Featured image: Meeting in Seville on the localisation of the SDGs that took place from 25 to 27 February 2019. Source: Consolidating the local-global movement to enhance the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, 4 March 2019
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While previously it was a hobby culminating in writing articles for Wikipedia (until things made a drastic and undeniable turn in 2020) and a few books for private consumption, since March 2020 I have become a full-time researcher and writer in reaction to the global takeover that came into full view with the introduction of covid-19. For most of my life, I have tried to raise awareness that a small group of people planned to take over the world for their own benefit. There was no way I was going to sit back quietly and simply let them do it once they made their final move.
