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The Tories’ plan to make the rich richer

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Is This a Departure From Tories Past?

Shadow chancellor rachel reeve's response to the budget. She said it amounted to a comprehensive demolition of the government's last 12 years in power. What did you make of that line? Because i thought it was a pretty weird line to take. I mean, we've heard that before from the free ports policy. So is it actually that much of a departure from tory governments past? You know, this energy bill packages is very similar to what the furlouw scheme did instead of trying to keep people on ice through a crisis. And then george osborne, he cut the top rate of tax in 20 12. He cut stamp duty in 20 14. They were always

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