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The Conservative party should stop debating whether it “wants” tax cuts, Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, has said, in an apparent riposte to pressure from Liz Truss and other Tory backbenchers for the government to commit to cuts.
At a packed fringe meeting during the Conservative party conference yesterday, the former prime minister and her supporters held a rally where they pushed for the chancellor to cut corporation tax, build 500,000 new homes and resume fracking to cut energy bills.
But Hunt told a fringe meeting organised by the Centre for Policy Studies today:
I think in the Conservative party, we should stop debating whether or not we want tax cuts. We all want tax cuts. That’s what we believe in. The debate we should be having is how you get tax cuts, and every good Conservative knows there is no shortcuts.
He added that answers to this included higher growth or productive spending of tax payer’s money.
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2023-10-03 08:36:40
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