Mel Stride
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How will Burnham pay for all those promises? People aren’t fools. Higher taxes. Even more damage to our economy and the last thing struggling households need.
Quite 👇
Even the dogs in the street know what’s going on.
UK investors withdrew £1.6 billion from stock market funds in July as fears grow over potential tax rises under Andy Burnham. We must now urgently get on top of the welfare budget, get taxes down...
So the question for John Healey is a simple one. Does he accept that this cannot go on, or does he intend to carry on borrowing at £369 million a day and hope the markets keep looking the other way?
We are likely to see these sorts of alarm signals coming from business in the run up to the budget. It’s very likely Labour are going to ignore them completely.
Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes. This is just more borrowing, which means more debt, and more interest payments. Labour can't be trusted with the economy or the public finances, beca...
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Labour have never seen a tax they don't want to raise or a spending commitment they don't want to make. They simply do not understand business, the economy, or why their own policies are pushing u...
Last time I checked, @michaelgove wasn't responsible for raising taxes on jobs, introducing the Unemployment Act, or failing to tackle welfare dependency. Labour should stop finding excuses and re...
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Burnham is already dropping the ball on Britain’s greatest challenges. My piece in @TheSun on Sunday 👇 https://t.co/1IYDjaXEWG
Labour say they want a pragmatic approach to the North Sea. Pragmatic would be producing it here, not importing it. But Labour are taxing it out of existence. Our Cheap Power Plan cuts bills and ...
So now we know, 89 more days of unfunded spending commitments and economy-damaging tax speculation until we get some details.
Rates are staying higher for longer because Labour have left us poorly prepared for global shocks, and there's little trust Burnham's first budget won't do more damage. Only @Conservatives have a ...
Anyone on around £50k loses £793 a year. A senior nurse. A police sergeant. An experienced teacher. The Prime Minister has mentioned the cost of living repeatedly, so higher tax shouldn't be the...
£24,785. That's a full-time minimum wage salary. Under the PM's proposed social care levy, you'd hand over an extra £334 of it. Labour's answer to this issue: Send working people the bill. Gr...
The Government must not cover their social care reforms with yet more taxes. They're already facing a new £24bn black hole in their spending plans. And taxes are already higher than at any point...
Labour have run out of road on tax and borrowing. Andy Burnham must now control spending especially the welfare bill. Get taxes and debt down and we can get growing. My piece in @ConHome 👇
Great to join @Alain_Tolhurst on The Rundown podcast and discuss how the @Conservatives can continue to win on the economy.
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