Hunt Draws Election Battle Lines With Cuts to Spending and Taxes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : A six-year freeze on tax thresholds more than cancels out the reductions announced in NICs.
50% : "It will require difficult and unpopular tax and spending decisions and suggests a dose of caution that the story can play out quite as well as after the 1997 vote," which was the last time the Labour Party swept aside the Conservatives in an election, said Kallum Pickering, an economist Berenberg Gossler & Co.The £10 billion giveaway was part-funded by extending the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas by a year and limiting an exemption for wealthy foreigners deemed "non-domiciled" in the UK -- both measures that Labour had proposed.

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