Rishi Sunak is finally trying to reverse Britain's long drift towards socialism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Some 18 months later, his Chancellor is slashing National Insurance and reversing part of the raid on company profits.
55% : Hunt's 2p cut to National Insurance will only return one pound out of every four raised through changes to income tax or National Insurance since March 2021; this will still be the most tax raising Parliament of modern times, the Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates.
52% : This is a calamity: high levels of government spending will be a drag on productivity and on growth.
50% : Last but not least, Hunt is rightly squeezing public spending, at least if we are to believe his forecasts: by keeping nominal rises to low levels, higher inflation will help cut the size of the state from 44.8 per cent of GDP today to 42.7 per cent by 2028-9, assuming that these post-election spending plans actually materialise.
47% : Even with the supposed real terms spending cuts pencilled in by Hunt, state expenditure would remain 3.1 per cent of GDP higher than pre-Covid by 2028-29.
43% : We need more economic growth, and the only way to achieve that is to cut tax on labour and capital, slash public spending, reform welfare and encourage enterprise and risk-taking.

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