The big announcement in George Osborne’s speech today was that the next Conservative government is to freeze council tax for two years. Not as electrifying as last year’s inheritance tax proposal, and harder for a Labour government to steal. Obsorne said: The country may not be able to afford upfront tax cuts because borrowing is too high

Camden's Conservatives have set up a council tax time bomb for local residents by following a populist punt by George Osborne to 'freeze' council tax for the next two years. In his recent New Year's message, Tory leader Cllr. Andrew Marshall says: "Camden’s Conservative councillors have today called for a further two year freeze in council tax until 2013, following from t...

What a bloody excellent speech from Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. He outlined perfectly where it all went wrong under Brown and how a Conservative government would set things right. And he managed to pull another great policy out of his hat: a Conservative government would bring in a two year council tax freeze. I'll update this post when I can get hold of George's full speech and th...

Council tax would be frozen for the first two years of a Conservative government Shadow Chancellor George Osborne promised the Tory party conference in Birmingham.

Council tax would be frozen for the first two years of a Tory government the Shadow Chancellor has said in a promise immediately questioned by Labour.

George Osborne's pledge to freeze Council Tax does not of course apply in Wales, though if there is new money involved then there may well be a Barnett consequential available to the Welsh Assembly Government, which it could use, if it wished, to do something similar here, but what exactly does this promise mean anyway? The BBC tell us that Osborne does not want central government to force th...

George Osborne vowed to work with local councils to freeze council tax as part of a wide-ranging speech to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham

So George Osborne’s big headline grabbing economic initiative? A two year freeze on council tax. (BBC and Guardian). So torn between the Tory tax cutters (with whom I have much sympathy) and the need to avoid Labour calls of Tory service cuts, a freeze must have seemed like a compromise. Assuming high inflation this could be

Shadow chancellor George Osborne says the next Tory government will freeze council tax for their first two years in office.

The Shadow Chancellor George Osborne today announced that a future Tory Government will enable town halls to freeze council tax for two years.