I am speaking at two meetings at Labour Party conference tomorrow.
The most important has been organised by the Cooperative Party and the Fair Tax Mark. It's at 5.45 in Meeting Room 7 and has the title:
‘Fair Tax, the new Fairtrade: how can Labour lead the agenda?'
Meg Hillier, the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee is, I suspect. the star attraction.
Before that, at 4pm in Room 2H of the ACC I am speaking at a Policy Exchange event (slightly to my own surprise) on what an alternative economic agenda might look like. They have said they're expecting something they might not agree with. I will not disappoint.
If you're around in Liverpool I'd be pleased to say hallo.
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Good luck. I do hope they listen to you and turn it into good policy.
I recall last year that you brought some advance copies of your book to Conference. It would be excellent if you could do likewise this year for Filthy Secrets, and even perhaps persuade the schedulers to include an additional meeting with readings of the interesting bit.
It’s not printed yet
Sorry
And it’s Dirty Secrets
Good luck taking your message to the heathen (aka Policy Exchange).
You will be good for them and it will challenge you afresh, which always has to be good. Enjoy.
Hi Richard
I was listening to Any Questions (or Question Time) and Jacob Rees-Mogg said the following “we are already taxed to broadly the historic limit of taxation in the economy. If you look at figures going back to the 1970s, the tax take to GDP varies between 34% and 38%. If you look at the Treasury red book we are heading towards the 38% level.”
I would love to know how would you respond to this statement and his general view that taxes cannot be increased?
Many thanks
David
It’s just making stuff up
Other countries do
There is no immutable law that 38% is it
He might as well aay fairies appear in the garden when tax reaches 40% – there would be as much truth in that claim as what he said
Thanks for the answer
When will the FTM be updating its website for the most recent accounts? It has those for year end December 2014 but nothing since. Openess and all that.
They are published
We are doing a web site update now….