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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Pa Political Staff

Hunt running a ‘high-tax, high-spend, low-growth, quasi-socialist economy’ – MP

PA Wire

The Chancellor is presiding over a “high-tax, high-spend, low-growth, quasi-socialist economy”, a Conservative backbencher has claimed.

Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, urged Jeremy Hunt to lower the “burden of taxation” and introduce “some tax cuts” days after the Chancellor’s Spring Budget.

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