The Conservative party will not win the next general election if it responds to the rise of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party by shifting dramatically to the right, leadership contender Matt Hancock warned on Sunday. “We cannot be shifted off the centre ground by the Brexit party,” he said. Tax cuts have been part of the Conservative offer but now things are different. We should not reverse that progress just to finance tax cuts. “So any tax cuts have to be matched by cuts in public spending.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2019 20:09 UTC