Jeremy Hunt must slash income tax and put more money in people’s pockets
Slash and earn
RISHI Sunak and his Chancellor are apparently mulling tax cuts in the autumn.
Slashing the main rate of income tax would be eye-catching and put money in people’s pockets ahead of next year’s General Election.
But there are other measures on tax for Jeremy Hunt to ponder, too — not least corporation tax.
The IMF gave Britain the biggest upgrade of any G7 economy for 2023 and predicts growth next year.
But, as the IMF also points out, the global economic outlook remains fragile — with a “rocky road” ahead.
The UK currently has its largest tax burden since the Second World War.
Reducing it is vital if we are to secure a proper feelgood factor in 2024.
Nasty party
SIR Keir Starmer has long had a woman problem — being unable to even say what one is.
Now he is trying to boost his chances of getting to Number Ten by attacking the Prime Minister’s wife, over her non-dom status.
Labour’s latest attack ad follows the unpleasant form of all the others, a personal assault on the Sunaks.
Perhaps the party is more comfortable on this kind of hopelessly negative territory, because it has no positive vision or policy agenda of its own to set out?
Meanwhile, it’s a curious feature of Sir Softie’s leadership that he still likes to boast about his time as Director of Public Prosecutions.
Every time he does so, the truth about his own often weak approach to criminals is exposed. And blows up in his face.
CBI in dock
IT is astonishing how quickly the CBI has imploded.
Allegations of sexual misconduct have cost the chief executive his job, while three other senior staff are suspended.
And a boycott of its events put in place by ministers remains.
Britain needs a strong pro-enterprise group as its post-Brexit cheerleader.
If the CBI can’t do the job, business leaders must set up a body that can.
Flyer’s honour
THE campaign to properly remember the life of the forgotten RAF veteran Peter Brown has been extraordinary.
He may have died a lonely death — but he will now receive a military funeral at the Force’s own St Clement Danes Church, which up to 600 can attend.
And The Sun is delighted to have helped find his Jamaican cousins, who hope to travel for the May 25 funeral.
It’s a farewell fit for a hero.