ANDREW Bowie repeatedly refused to say whether he would back Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax slashing mini-budget in a parliamentary vote.
The Scottish Tory MP, speaking from the party’s conference in Birmingham, repeatedly said he was “looking forward” to the Prime Minister and Chancellor making the case for their financial plans over the weekend, but would not commit to fully backing the policy.
Instead, Bowie admitted he shared former Tory minister Michael Gove’s concerns over the plans, which will require huge amounts of borrowing to pay for sweeping tax cuts which disproportionately benefit the richest in society, but would not go so far to say that he would vote the policy down in the House of Commons.
