To thrive, PM must first undo his mess
SIR KEIR Starmer will tomorrow warn that Britain is now in a new world.
No kidding, PM.
GettyKeir Starmer needs to back British business and free every firm from his Chancellor’s tax shackles[/caption]
Almost overnight, Donald Trump’s disastrous tariffs have unleashed a tidal wave of economic misery across the planet.
Thanks to Brexit, Britain’s 10 per cent burden is half of that imposed on the EU.
So tomorrow the PM needs to set out a new industrial strategy for these turbulent times.
Pursuing every opportunity to exploit our relatively stronger position than Europe’s is vital.
There is just one major problem.
When Sir Keir says he will go further and faster to back British business, his words will ring hollow.
Because from today British business is being crippled by a new £25billion tax burden that his own Government brought in.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ National Insurance grab will hammer firms up and down the land.
Business leaders are understandably dejected at yet another blow.
Iceland boss Richard Walker, who employs 30,000 workers, says: “We do not have bottomless reserves of cash put aside in a piggy bank for the Government to draw on.”
We couldn’t have put it better.
Sir Keir cannot have it both ways.
It is essential he pursues his growth agenda at full pelt.
He has already launched £5billion in welfare cuts, but our economy was stalling even before the US piled on the agony of tariffs.
To really back British business he must see the errors of his own ways.
For a start, PM, ditch the lunatic extra costs of Angela Rayner’s upcoming workers’ rights bill.
Then kick Ed Miliband’s Net Zero folly into the long grass.
And to really back British business, you must free every firm from your own Chancellor’s tax shackles.
Can’t escape reality
THE Civil Service has frustrated vital moves to deliver fundamental reform.
Instead of driving change, mandarins have spent oodles of our cash on absurd away days and touchy-feely merchandise.
Home Office staff were even sent on a jolly to an escape room courtesy of the taxpayer.
Their time and our cash should have been spent stopping dangerous criminals escaping from jail.
So we welcome moves by Labour to end their ludicrous jaunts and corporate coffee cups.
We will not be taken for mugs any longer.
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