Every shadow minister is instructed to find savings
Last week ConHome wrote: "Before we’re willing to accept tax rises from an incoming Tory government we need to be… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Tax and Spending
David Cameron steps up his attack on Labour’s handling of the economy
As some interpret today’s narrowing of the Conservative poll lead as a grateful public showing its appreciation to Labour for… Read more »
The original tax bombshell broadcast
John Major’s 1992 tax bombshell broadcast was one of the most successful of modern times and helped propel the Conservatives… Read more »
There is no ‘Letwin waste review’
Questioned on Friday by ConservativeHome, David Cameron dismissed The Sunday Telegraph’s recent suggestion that Oliver Letwin was conducting a new… Read more »
CCHQ launch new campaign materials
Earlier this week when conservatives.com launched a national debt clock you asked for it to be embeddable and personalised. CCHQ… Read more »
What should be Tory policy on the 45p tax band?
5pm update: THE RESULTS OF TODAY’S POLL 41% of 711 people who answered the poll said the Conservatives should oppose… Read more »
At the last minute Brown decided against announcing an increase in VAT to 18.5%…
…but the cancellation of the announcement doesn’t mean that the tax rise itself has also been cancelled. Read Ben Brogan’s… Read more »
National debt counter launched on conservatives.com
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One way or another Labour calculates that it will profit from yesterday’s gamble
Yesterday Brown gambled and he thinks he can ‘win’ either way. If the gamble sparks a recovery in his poll… Read more »
Outstanding performance by George Osborne
Highlights are pasted below but George Osborne’s response to the boomerang budget was outstanding. He showed genuine anger at the… Read more »
George Osborne’s PBR response
Visibly angry George Osborne gets up. Highlights follow, not verbatim. The Prime Minister’s claim to have abolished boom and bust… Read more »
Labour to raise top rate of income tax to 45%
That’s what the BBC is reporting. The higher income tax rate won’t, however, apply until after the next election and… Read more »
David Cameron: The only certainty about a VAT cut is that it’ll add £12bn to the national debt
Key messages from David Cameron’s interview on Andrew Marr’s Sunday morning programme (not verbatim): It is not true that the… Read more »
‘However Gordon wraps it up, it’s still a tax bombshell’
The image above appears in a number of newspapers, including the Mail on Sunday. According to the Independent on Sunday,… Read more »
The race to ‘own’ the economic issues
The Independent reports that Labour has found an extra £5bn of savings across Whitehall. These savings will be used to… Read more »