“That tendency is intrinsic to Labour MPs.”

The claim asserts an inherent or intrinsic disposition shared by all Labour MPs — that they are fundamentally driven by a desire to tax more in order to fund more benefits. This is a claim about the internal motivations and essential nature of a group of people, which cannot be empirically verified or falsified by public evidence. What the public record shows is mixed and does not settle the question either way: - Labour's 2024 manifesto explicitly pledged not to raise taxes on working people (no increases to National Insurance, income tax, or VAT) and committed to fiscal rules requiring the current budget to move into balance. This suggests at least a public posture of restraint, not an intrinsic impulse to raise taxes. - After the election, the Labour government did raise employer National Insurance contributions by £23.8 billion, which critics argued broke the spirit of their manifesto pledge. This could be cited as evidence supporting the characterisation, but it is a single policy decision, not proof of an intrinsic disposition. - Individual Labour MPs have varied voting records on tax and welfare. Some have voted for welfare expansions (e.g., removing the two-child limit), while others have supported fiscal restraint. There is no uniform pattern that would prove an intrinsic tendency shared by all Labour MPs. The word "intrinsic" and the metaphor "in their DNA" make this a claim about inherent, essential nature — a type of "claimed state of mind" that falls outside what public evidence can confirm or refute. Voting records and policy platforms can show patterns, but they cannot establish that a tendency is intrinsic or unchangeable. Equally, they cannot disprove it. This is a political opinion dressed as a factual assertion, and the evidence needed to adjudicate it (an assessment of essential character) is not publicly available in a form that could resolve the question. Sources: Labour Party Manifesto 2024 (https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Labour-Party-manifesto-2024.pdf); Institute for Government, "Labour's tax pledges" (https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/labours-tax-pledges); Labour's fiscal plan (https://labour.org.uk/change/labours-fiscal-plan/); ProjectParly MP voting records (https://projectparly.co.uk)