When we look at the priorities of Conservative voters, 46 per cent want the cost-of-living and inflation tackled, 36 per cent want energy security improved, 30 per cent want economic growth to return, and only 14 per cent want taxes cut.
For many state schools, already thinly-resourced and stretched to capacity, a sudden influx of students from the independent sector would be a disaster.
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The system is all but designed to subsidise low wages, disincentivise productivity, and give retirees no stake in the UK maintaining a thriving, dynamic economy.
We are fed up with being controlled by its incorrect forecasts, and subject to wild policy swings by the Bank of England which did much to give us inflation in the first place.
The Government needs to cut taxes and do more to support domestic producers, not strangle the economy to master inflation.
The Government needs to trust the people more and resort to rule-making less. This Queen’s speech should set that tone.
Slowing the economy too much this spring will cut tax revenue. They could end up with a bigger deficit from too tough a squeeze.
When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.
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The Chancellor is groping his way, knowing well that the future is unknowable, trying to hold on to as much of the past as he can.
What normalisation should mean is the return to a functioning market economy where our wants and needs are met in today’s circumstances.
Saving London’s nightlife through an ambitious programme of liberalisation is one way to begin rebuilding support amongst the next generation.