FINANCIAL TIMES: Chancellor’s tax-cutting plans fail to find a ready market in Bury

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Period24 Sep 2022

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  • TitleChancellor’s tax-cutting plans fail to find a ready market in Bury
    Media name/outletFinancial Times
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date24/09/22
    DescriptionRob Ford, professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said the tax cuts were unlikely to be popular among the so-called “red wall” coalition of voters in Brexit-voting northern towns like Bury.

    Nevertheless, he said, Labour would need to make the case against the chancellor’s approach. “It should be easier for Labour to say ‘this is a reckless bunch of nonsense in the middle of a cost of living crisis’, but they do have to do it,” he said.
    URLhttps://www.ft.com/content/290e9085-780e-4ed3-b9f8-4374ff8b7c24
    PersonsRobert Ford
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  • Conservative Party
  • UK politics