Cost-of-living crisis is the No.1 issue the next Prime Minister must get to grips with
Making the cut
TORY leadership candidates promising tax cuts aplenty are singing from The Sun’s hymn sheet.
The cost-of-living crisis is the No.1 issue the next PM must get to grips with.
Pledges such as slashing fuel taxes are perfectly doable now — given the vast sums the Treasury has been raking in off the back of record pump prices.
As we have argued for months, this would ease the real hardships people are suffering, without stoking inflation.
Current Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi should immediately enact the plan of his rival Sajid Javid, revealed in today’s paper, and slash 10p off fuel duty today.
The Tories have to be the party of low tax, small state and fair rewards for hard work and it is to this Government’s shame that it has saddled people with the highest tax burden since the 1940s.
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But it is not enough to promise lower taxes. The cuts must be credible, backed by reasoning, competence and rigour.
Only when we hear not only WHAT taxes they will cut, but WHEN and HOW it will be paid for, will we know the best man or woman for the job.
It is clear Labour doesn’t have a clue how to fix the economy.
The Tory contenders for the top job must prove to the party and the country that they do.
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Rights & wrong
THE routine abuse of the human rights system gets more farcical with every case.
The foreign refugee who murdered his wife and lied that he was bisexual in a bid to stay in Britain after his jail sentence — yet still avoided a deportation order — is just the latest.
Meanwhile, two thirds of asylum-seekers who arrived here since 2018 claiming to be unaccompanied children were found to be adults, with obvious safeguarding risks to real refugee kids.
With the discredited European Convention on Human Rights as their playbook, the cheats know exactly which false claims to make.
Why wouldn’t they, with an army of left-wing lawyers ready to help them?
It is a system that favours liars and criminals, to the detriment not just of the British public but of law-abiding refugees and genuine asylum-seekers.
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Sunny side
LIKE “unexpected snow” in winter, we’ve been taken by surprise by a heatwave in summer, and Britain’s default position is that we can’t cope.
Water companies are already talking about hosepipe bans and the new UK Health Security Agency is telling parents not to let their children play in the sun and telling schools to think about cancelling sports days.
Can’t they just let us enjoy the sunshine? Because if there’s another predictable thing about Britain, it’s that good weather doesn’t last long.