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Fuel protestors threaten action

The organisers of the disruptive fuel blockade of 2000 have threatened to take action once again if the government fails to cut its fuel tax. As nationwide fuel prices approach the £1 per litre mark, the Fuel Lobby said it would recreate its week-long protest by blockading UK refineries on September 14th. “We want to… Read more »

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George Osborne makes the case for flat taxes
Osborne calls for simpler, flatter taxes

The Conservatives must take a “wholly different approach” to taxation to persuade voters they are serious about cutting and simplifying taxes, the shadow chancellor says today. George Osborne will tell the Social Market Foundation that his party lost the tax argument in the recent election because people “simply didn’t believe that we would cut taxes”…. Read more »