Neat, plausible and wrong
Jun 04, 2022
2 minutes
For an “avowed fiscal conservative”, chancellor Rishi Sunak is “capable of some sizable contortions”, says the Financial Times. Last week Sunak announced some “huge new tax and spending commitments”, most striking among them his U-turn on a 25% windfall tax on the ‘extraordinary profits’ of oil and gas firms (a move that 63% of the UK public support, notes
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