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Conservative Home11 Aug 2026

Lord Ashcroft: My latest polling – Whose side is Andy Burnham on, does he have a plan, what will happen to taxes, and do we need an election?

My latest poll looks in detail at early impressions of Andy Burnham as prime minister: whose side is he on, does he have a plan, what do people make of his ideas, and where should the money come from? The post Lord Ashcroft: My latest polling – Whose side is Andy Burnham on, does he have a plan, what will happen to taxes, and do we need an election? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home11 Aug 2026

Tony Devenish: Burnham’s devolution plans will just mean more tax

My own Council , Westminster City Council is facing a £100m funding cut, over the next three years, causing inevitable cuts to council services and significant council tax increases. That’s nearly 50 per cent in Central Government’s decades old grants to my council. The post Tony Devenish: Burnham’s devolution plans will just mean more tax appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home10 Aug 2026

Kiran Fothergill: The biggest cost of living isn’t your weekly shop. It’s tax

At the next election, for the good of our nation and to finally alleviate the ‘cost of living crisis’, the Conservative Party should stand on a credible plan to change direction on public spending. We need to inspire a future where we have lower taxes. The post Kiran Fothergill: The biggest cost of living isn’t your weekly shop. It’s tax appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home6 Aug 2026

Ted Grainger: The Conservatives were right about the Dementia Tax

A serious Prime Minister would level with the public that the true unfairness in the current system lies not in asking those with significant housing windfalls to contribute, but in pretending that ever‑rising care costs can be met forever by taxing everyone else. The post Ted Grainger: The Conservatives were right about the Dementia Tax appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home5 Aug 2026

Katie Lam: Devolution is just another way that Labour will tax you

He should fix our broken housing system, which makes it expensive and difficult for people to choose where to live, and stop creating absurd new rules, which prevent enterprising people from making money and creating jobs. The post Katie Lam: Devolution is just another way that Labour will tax you appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home31 Jul 2026

Desmond Swayne: Burnham’s tax confusion is dangerous for business

If Burnham wants to prove he understands business, he should start by giving those who create jobs the one thing they need most: confidence that success will not be punished The post Desmond Swayne: Burnham’s tax confusion is dangerous for business appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home31 Jul 2026

Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Give departments an investment budget

An IDEL funding stream would create a structured mechanism for departments to modernise while repaying it from future savings. This would operate like a loan. The post Anne-Marie Trevelyan: Give departments an investment budget appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home30 Jul 2026

Daniel Freeman: Here’s what Andy Burnham should have announced on property tax

This approach would see the government lose in the first year much of the roughly £11bn it receives from residential Stamp Duty, but this would recover over time as properties change hands and transition to the new system, and the economic benefits from a tax that does not punish moving house would be considerable. The post Daniel Freeman: Here’s what Andy Burnham should have announced on property tax appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Chase Blount: Sin taxes do not work

Sin taxes don’t work; they don’t positively or significantly reduce consumption of goods, they don’t raise government revenue by much, they cause negative industry reform, and they hurt those on lower incomes the most. The post Chase Blount: Sin taxes do not work appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Reva Gudi: I’m a GP – this is what Burnham should do to fix social care instead

I did not arrive at this from a Treasury spreadsheet, but from decades of looking after the elderly in their homes, in care homes, in conversations with families trying to do right by the people they love. The post Reva Gudi: I’m a GP – this is what Burnham should do to fix social care instead appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Miriam Cates: Burnham gets some things right about Thatcher

Through blood, sweat and coal, the North of England was once responsible for generating the wealthiest era in British history. Politicians of all political persuasions should be asking what can be done to make the regions great again, not out of pity or nostalgia, but because the UK’s economic success depends on it.  The post Miriam Cates: Burnham gets some things right about Thatcher appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home27 Jul 2026

Ted Newson: Burnham won’t bring back British industry with more carbon taxes

Despite now owning British Steel, the country still does not make enough steel. If things go ahead as planned, our specialist manufacturers face even higher costs when importing the raw materials that they turn into planes, trains, and other machinery. The post Ted Newson: Burnham won’t bring back British industry with more carbon taxes appeared first on Conservative Home.

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