Tory tax plans
Tax is still head-lining the opposition parties' policy agendas. Predictably, the FT goes into greatest depth (unless you go to the Conservative's website itself to read the whole thing).
Even the FT likes to jazz up the story with a process piece about the material being released onto the Conservative's website too early, allowing Ed Balls to get his rebuttal in before the report had even been launched; The Independent focus's on David Cameron's presentation of the piece ("Cameron rejects party's call for £21bn package of tax cuts")
However, The Times manages to get everything into the one story:
"The detailed 176-page study, which was accidentally put on the party’s website the day before it was due to be published, shatters the Conservatives’ uneasy truce on taxation.
The party leadership has been rejecting calls from
rightwingers for tax cuts in order to shed the party’s image of being
obsessed with the issue and to re-establish its economic credibility.
Fears about Conservative tax policies have cost the party dearly in the
past two elections."
Also in today's news
- "Mystery over slurring Charlie" - The Sun
Also covered in The Telegraph and The Mirror
- PMQs sketch - The Telegraph:
"as far as Iraq is concerned, it is the Ming emperor who holds the moral high ground. Not for nothing has he spent the greater part of his life, after youthful frolics as an Olympic athlete, among the mandarins of the Foreign Office, joining them in their rapt contemplation of the higher truths of international relations.
"These truths include the inadvisability of invading sovereign countries, even when they happen to be run by very nasty people. Mr Blair had no time whatever for the wisdom of the mandarins, which stood between him and his mission to make Mesopotamia a paradise on earth."