After our recent series asked ‘What should Tories tax?’, the Adam Smith Institute’s Head of Research kicks off a new mini-series seeking routes to lower taxes.
In the first instalment of a three-part mini-series, Bright Blue’s senior research fellow explores how tax reform could rebalance the fiscal burden.
People will not accept any arrangement that isn’t funded through the tax system and free at the point of use. So we have to find a way of making the current model work.
“We need to give it its own clear funding stream that is then permanently separate. For all its flaws, is almost the only bit of the British state that is genuinely loved.”
The Conservatives need to support genuine allies – such as savers, home owners, small businesses, and the armed forces.
Cutting the cost of living. Building more houses. Protecting the NHS. Developing skills. A draft of the proposals Hammond should deliver.
The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.
Employment, taxation, and three environment are three areas where we can show the Tory agenda is bigger than Brexit.
Conservative values underpin what it can achieve – whether in apprenticeships, manufacturing exports, jobs or contributions to good causes.
A lot on Brexit; not much elsewhere. The lack of a majority leaves the Prime Minister exposed – whatever may happen with the DUP.
Two in three are opposed. The finding is part of nearly five thousand replies, our biggest-ever reader response.
This first piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that the Conservatives must get serious about living within our means.
The second piece in our series on reducing taxes also argues that in the longer term we should seek to return to a two-rate Income Tax system.