Saying that many candidates have promised tax cuts and asked specifically which ones he would push forward, Mr Tugendhat told the BBC: “I’m very happy that my colleagues are joining me on this, when I didn’t vote for the rise in National Insurance. I think I was one of the few Conservative MPs who did not vote for this rise in National Insurance because I understood then that it was a tax on jobs. “Given that we had just come out of two years of Covid … which really hurt so many people around the world, what we really need to do is move forward with development.” He said you’ll only get growth “if you take the brakes off the economy, which is why I’m talking about cutting the jobs tax, or rather not imposing it.” Asked specifically about cutting income tax and whether he would do so before the next election, he said: “I certainly think we should be looking to cut taxes in every aspect of society.”
