Public support tax increases
A Populus poll in yesterday’s Times revealed that 60% of voters favour tax increases to help close the budget deficit despite a headline declaring that, “Voters back Tories over big cuts in spending.”
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Tory Justice spokesman obsessed with cuts
After Andrew Lansley’s revelation that the Tories planned ten per cent cuts last month it was the turn of Shadow Justice Minister Edward Garnier to reveal the opposition obsession today. The Harborough MP appeared to let the cat out oftest
Cameron’s quango plans unlikely to result in any cost savings
David Cameron’s speech today was billed as a “bonfire of the quangos.” But Cameron’s poor examples of which quangos would be reformed and the list of new quangos that he hopes to create suggest that little cost savings will result from the plans.