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Rishi Sunak's Time is Up

From the Sunday Telegraph

Rishi Sunak has pledged to curb benefits and government spending to fund tax cuts before and after a general election.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the Prime Minister made his most explicit commitment yet to further tax cuts before an election, saying: “When I say that I want to keep cutting taxes, that’s what we’re going to deliver.”

He added that there would be further tax cuts as part of the Tory party offering during the election campaign. “I’m going to be crystal clear. My priority is cutting taxes,” he said.

Mr Sunak sought to draw a dividing line with Labour by funding tax cuts by bearing down on Britain’s welfare bill and overall government spending, with measures such as the hiring freeze on civil servants.

Tax is becoming the primary battleground between the Conservatives and Labour and Mr Sunak said he wanted to focus on levies “on work” in the same vein as the 2p National Insurance cut that took effect on Saturday.

His intervention hints at a looming income tax cut at the March 6 Budget, to be implemented before an election and potentially partly funded by further welfare reforms in addition to the £4 billion in savings from changes announced in September. His comments suggest that the Tories’ election manifesto will commit to further tax cuts.

‘I WANT TO KEEP CUTTING TAXES’
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Going further than Jeremy Hunt, who on Saturday would not guarantee tax cuts, Mr Sunak told The Telegraph: “The Autumn Statement delivered the biggest set of tax cuts in one event since the 1980s. That should give people a sense of the scale of what we’ve just done, and a sense of my ambition and the Chancellor’s determination to cut taxes.

“When I say that I want to keep cutting taxes, that’s what we’re going to deliver. We’re going to do that responsibly. That requires difficult decisions on public spending. It requires difficult decisions to control welfare. Those, I believe, are the right things to do for our country. That’s what I want to do.

“I’m very clear, I want to control public spending, I want to control welfare, which we’re doing and because we’re doing that, and because we’re being disciplined with borrowing and our debt, we’re going to be in a position to cut taxes.”

Asked about which taxes he would target, Mr Sunak added: “I believe in the nobility of work, I believe work is central to people’s lives. And I believe that in a society where people are working hard should be one where their hard work is rewarded. And that’s why I’m really pleased that we cut tax significantly on National Insurance, because it’s a tax on work.”

Turning to the election, Mr Sunak added: “That will be a contrast between us and the Labour Party at the next election. Lots of people will say to us, oh, gosh, you’re not going to spend enough here, there and everywhere. I’m going to be crystal clear. My priority is cutting taxes, not more government spending ... So that’s the plan. The only way to cut your taxes over time is to have a smaller, more efficient public sector.”

Mr Hunt, the Chancellor, is being urged ahead of the Budget by more than 45 Conservative MPs to ensure that “deeply worrying” forecasting errors by the Office for Budget Responsibility are not hampering Britain’s economic recovery.

This weekend, the Chancellor appeared to confirm that an inheritance tax cut was under consideration, describing the levy as “a pernicious tax”.
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PR1Berske said:
From the Sunday Telegraph
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If his priority is cutting tax then it isn't the safety of the nation either its health, its infrastructure or its defence

And as anyone who has travelled south on the Walworth Road from the elephant can tell you, the health of the people is the highest law
 
Another Tory cunt going on about ‘hard work’ while living off unearned income syphoned via dividends from people who actually do the hard work. I bet he’s never even had to lift anything at ‘work’.

and they could cut my tax and NI to zero and the annual savings wouldn’t even cover three months of the increase in mortgage payments I’m having to make due to Kwasi Kwartang/Truss’s little game of libertarian student politics last year.
 
Pickman's model said:
He won't like it when he finds out that it's a piece of piss for the houthis to really fuck up the red sea and he'll like it even less when he sees what can be done to close to the straits of hormuz
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All true, but that won't stop them popping the champers in No. 10....they'll be creaming their pants at the poll boost from the footage of our brave boys from the tame, embedded media
 
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