Tories Won’t Rule Out Tax Rises Either

Jeremy Hunt has this morning refused to rule out new taxes if the Tories win. Nick Ferrari asked: “You can say the following words: ‘Read my lips, no new taxes’ for the whole of the next Parliament, Chancellor?” Hunt’s response wasn’t the most inspirational…

“I can’t predict exactly what’s going to happen on every single tax but if you look at my record as Chancellor I have started to bring down the overall tax burden… I’m not going to write every single budget of the next Parliament but I can tell you that our direction of travel will be to bring taxes down.”