Tories challenge chancellor to rule out tax rises in budget as Badenoch labelled ‘embarrassment’ for Bank of England gaffe – UK politics live

The Conservatives want to brand Burnham’s administration as a ‘traditional tax and spend socialist government’ In a news release issued ahead of his speech this morning, Andrew Griffith , the new shadow chancellor, gave details of some of the questions he wants the experts he has asked to review small business regulation to address. (See 8.58am .) He said: [Craig Mackinlay and Robert Colvile] will produce a report taking evidence from small business and self-employed organisations. While they will have a wide remit, they will consider in particular these key questions, and report in December: -Why have past attempts to reduce the regulatory and compliance burden on small business and the self-employed failed, and what specifically should be done to reduce the burden successfully? This is staggering. Our socialist Chancellor has dished out a big England" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="2477" data-entity-type="organization">Bank of England finance job to a socialist union boss who knows nothing about finance. Clearly, trade union donations not only buy your way into government policymaking, but also onto the England" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="2477" data-entity-type="organization">Bank of England’s board. This is cronyism in plain sight. Continue reading...