More business leaders back the Tory position on what Conservative leader David Cameron calls a "jobs tax that will kill the country".

Lord Michael Forsyth, the former Scottish Conservative leader, has urged David Cameron to change tack and promise big tax and spending cuts to revive the economy.

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

I see that David Cameron, the Conservative leader, has warned that a Tory government would not introduce tax cuts during the recession. Admitting that his words would disappoint many within the party, Mr Cameron insisted that the economic circumstances were not right for tax cuts in the immediate future, and said that his focus as prime minister would be on restoring confidence. Fine. So, in princ...

With one bound, David Cameron is free...to promise tax cuts. Even before he had actually won the Tory leadership election three years ago, Cameron looked people like me in the eye and vowed that he would never...

• Raising threshold is not a priority, Clarke reveals • Shadow business secretary backs Cameron on 45p rate A big shift in Conservative tax policy was blown into the open by the former chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, yesterday when he declared that a landmark pledge on inheritance tax is to be downgraded. As rightwingers rounded on the Tory leader, David Cameron, who last week indicated that...

David Cameron may be just another progressive as are the majority of the "inner circle" and quite possibly a substantial number of current Tory MPs, but the fact remains that if Cameron is to win the next election he needs another 150 or so new Tory MPs - and this suggests that there may be life in the old party yet. David Cameron will head a party dominated by MPs more socially conservative and l...

Tory leader has paved the way for tax rises in the first term of a Conservative Government.

The Leader of a flagship Tory Council has quit the Conservatives and joined Labour in protest at David Cameron's priority to give millionaires a tax-break rather than help working people struggling to pay their bills. The Daily Mirror highlights the Tory tax chaos which led to the defection which rocked the Tories. Terry Hipsey says Cameron should have listened to Ken Clarke who at the weeken...

David Cameron has grasped the nettle on savers that the Telegraph has been campaigning on. He today sets out a £4.8 billion package of tax cuts for savers and pensioners to be funded by cutting public spending. Basic-rate taxpayers will not have to pay tax on their savings under the proposals unveiled by the Conservatives. David Cameron, the Conservative leader, is also pledging to incr...