SIR JOHN REDWOOD MP: It’s a simple law of nature: low taxes stimulate growth

SIR JOHN REDWOOD MP: It’s a simple law of nature: low taxes stimulate growth By John Redwood For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:07 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 02:30 GMT, 28 February 2021 The way to get the colossal deficit down is to promote and encourage growth. And allow people back to work … Read more

SIR JOHN REDWOOD MP: It’s a simple law of nature: low taxes stimulate growth

SIR JOHN REDWOOD MP: It’s a simple law of nature: low taxes stimulate growth By John Redwood For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:07 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 02:30 GMT, 28 February 2021 The way to get the colossal deficit down is to promote and encourage growth. And allow people back to work … Read more

DAVID DAVIS: Rishi must NOT raise taxes. He should be bold and CUT them like Reagan 

The mutterings that keep emerging from the Treasury about increasing taxes to balance the books are economically incomprehensible. Such action would not only be wrong, it would be completely counter-productive. We Tories must be honest with ourselves and with the public: There is no way we can balance the costs of the crisis in the … Read more

Coronavirus recovery: Even Keir Starmer doesn’t want to raise taxes and warns against austerity

Sir Keir Starmer has warned that tax rises and austerity risk ‘choking off’ a rapid economic revival after the coronavirus pandemic. The Labour leader said he wanted to model the UK’s recovery on Clement Attlee’s post-Second World War strategy to restore Britain’s ‘backbone’.  ‘In the short term, you don’t balance the books and you don’t … Read more

Coronavirus recovery: Even Keir Starmer doesn’t want to raise taxes and warns against austerity

Sir Keir Starmer has warned that tax rises and austerity risk ‘choking off’ a rapid economic revival after the coronavirus pandemic. The Labour leader said he wanted to model the UK’s recovery on Clement Attlee’s post-Second World War strategy to restore Britain’s ‘backbone’.  ‘In the short term, you don’t balance the books and you don’t … Read more

Rishi Sunak told hiking taxes in Budget will hit UK economy hard

Rishi Sunak was today warned that hiking taxes too early risks wrecking the fledgling economic recovery as a think-tank said the UK faces the biggest hit in the G7   The respected NIESR urged the Chancellor to be cautious in his Budget next month, despite hints that he intends to start repairing the battered public finances.  … Read more

Rishi Sunak is warned against hiking taxes too early in Budget

Rishi Sunak was today warned that hiking taxes too early risks wrecking the fledgling economic recovery as a think-tank said the UK faces the biggest hit in the G7   The respected NIESR urged the Chancellor to be cautious in his Budget next month, despite hints that he intends to start repairing the battered public finances.  … Read more

Taxes ‘will soar after pandemic as Britons will demand increased spending’

Taxes ‘will rise in next five years’: Bills are likely to soar after pandemic as Britons will demand increased spending, leading economist warns Paul Johnson, director of Institute for Fiscal Studies, warned of the future  He said economy will be smaller in 5 years than it would’ve been without Covid    This means there will be … Read more

Boris Johnson’s father Stanley lands new eco role that could see him pushing PM on green taxes

Boris Johnson’s father Stanley lands new eco role that could see him pushing the Prime Minister on green taxes Stanley Johnson will attend the Glasgow UN COP26 climate change conference  PM’s father said he will ‘constructively’ call for policies including carbon taxes New role is as international ambassador of Conservative Environment Network  By Colin Fernandez … Read more