‘My concern is that anybody can be accused of something and be simply “knocked out”’, he tells GB News.
The Health Secretary is pressed by Trevor Phillips over whether freezing tax thresholds means that the Government is really raising the tax burden, not lowering it.
“You’ve always got to explain where the money comes from”, the Shadow Chancellor tells Laura Kuenssberg.
The former chancellor talks to GB News’ Camilla Tominey about the Budget.
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Our Deputy Editor points out that “If you’re the prime minister…you can keep your opponents guessing”.
The cut to the higher rate of capital gains tax was notable in the speech for the Chancellor’s nod to the Treasury and the OBR’s “inner Laffer Curve”. If only they would channel it more often.
Collectively, these measures will have been enough to ensure Tory MPs didn’t leave the Commons chamber feeling empty-handed. But none will have been fooled into thinking this was a transformative Budget.
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Having previously campaigned to be the Conservative candidate for the London Mayoralty, Scully today announced he is standing down from Parliament at the next election.
The former Immigration Minister reacts to Rishi Sunak’s warning of the extremist threat to democracy by calling for an end to “mass migration.”
Hunt played down expectations of large tax cuts in the Budget, saying he aims to be “prudent and responsible”.
The Chancellor says “the economies that are growing fastest [globally]… tend to be the ones with lower taxes”.
My decision to step down wasn’t based on my prospects in Sutton and Cheam. Forecasts suggest it remains eminently winnable. It’s more about getting detached from the ability to solve problems, to get stuff done.