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Tory tax plans

by Russell Eagling last modified Thursday, 19 Oct, 2006 05:06
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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."

Anthony Browne - The Times

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