I can't be the only one who sees a tiny incongruity between:
"2024 manifesto commitments on tax are red lines."
and...
various examples of: "Yes well the world has changed since we said there wouldn't need to be another Budget like that."
Andy Bruce (Reuters)
Quietly utterly damning - but also entirely exposing how absurd the govts red lines are on tax.
There is no way you can nickle and dime your way to the spending increase needed here. You need a broad based tax rise. And no one in politics can confront that.
James Austin
NEW: John Healey quits over defence funding. Devastating letter for the government and Keir Starmer: “You have been unable and the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.”
