The squeeze: how long will the pain last?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Truss defined her agenda as 'growth, growth, growth', while Sunak's camp seems to embrace 'tax, trim, wait'.
53% : If state spending surges, ordinary workers will pay for it.
52% : Back when Sunak was in No. 11, he would ask: what type of country does Britain want to be after Brexit?
48% : 'Politically, you can't hike taxes and get the public finances in order alongside making other major reforms.
47% : There is a growing acknowledgement in Sunak's cabinet, however, that this government must address the question of how to turn healthy, working-age benefit claimants - some of whom are estimated by Whitehall to cost the taxpayer £15,000 a year - into people who instead pay taxes themselves.
44% : Britain appears to be entering into a phase - under the Tories, no less - where taxes are going to keep creeping upwards until growth trends improve.
43% : Another million part-time earners - on £12,500 a year - will be dragged into paying income tax because of the frozen personal allowance threshold.

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