I say in my political column this week that Cameron must “offer tax cuts before Brown does” – and seems I may not have to wait long before David Cameron repays my faith in him. Patrick Hennessy says in the Sunday Telegraph today that the Tories are planning an employment-orientated tax cut financed by spending cuts. As the FT said on Saturday that Darling could be mulling some &#...

David Cameron the Conservative leader has warned that a Tory government would not introduce tax cuts during the recession.

In his three years as Tory leader, David Cameron consistently rejected pressure from inside his own party to promise tax cuts. There were two reasons: polling by his strategist Steve Hilton showed that, at the 2005 election, voters didn't believe the Tories would deliver the tax cuts they promised. Secondly, Gordon Brown always converted Tory pledges to cut taxes into "Tory spending cuts...

Tory MPs are calling for big tax cuts to kick-start the economy in today's mini-Budget, even though David Cameron opposes the "fiscal stimulus" to be announced by the Chancellor Alistair Darling. A survey of MPs by ComRes for The Independent shows that Tory backbenchers support using tax cuts to stimulate the economy by a two to one margin. A large majority fear the "green" taxes proposed by ...

For days, David Cameron has been claiming tax cuts in the Pre-Budget Report would add up to a "tax bombshell" because they would be followed by tax rises in future years. But on the eve of the PBR, a hike in top-rate tax to 45p for anyone earning more than £150,000 was bombshell news and a cunning trap set by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to put the Tories on a tax tightrope. Th...

Taxpayer funded propaganda The Conservatives have warned Gordon Brown that any unfunded tax cuts would be irresponsible and merely "pass the debt onto the next generation". Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox told the BBC Mr Brown had "maxed out the country's credit card and simply wants to open another one to keep spending". And Tory leader David Cameron warned tax cuts could push up mortgage ...

So one of the big domestic politics news story of the day is that Cameron is proposing some tax cuts on savings. Specifically he announced that a Tory Government would abolish "income tax on savings for everyone on the basic rate of tax". Now don't get me wrong, I love a tax cut, I think we need tax cuts, but think about the practicalities of this for a moment. How is a saver on the basic rate of ...

DAVID Cameron hinted yesterday at the possibility of tax cuts under a Conservative government, saying that it was right for those who "put their backs into the British eco

Cable and Clegg are already calling for 'em, Brown and Darling are dumping dogma to talk about helping Britain through the recession with tax cuts, Osborne and Cameron are going to announce their tax relief plan tomorrow. Tax cuts are the new black. Meanwhile over in Wapping, Danny Finkelstein said yesterday that Guido is "eccentric" in campaigning for populist tax cuts. Perhaps we have differing ...

...and criticises David Cameron and co From the FT: "Leading UK business organisations on Tuesday opposed David Cameron, opposition Conservative leader, on the best economic response to the recession, backing the prime minister’s assertion that unfunded tax cuts were urgently needed. .... Business warned that the Tory policy of opposing unfunded tax cuts could lead to large-scale redund...