Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more dishonest, it does.
I wrote a piece in the Telegraph this morning saying that the Tories should dramatise the scale of the Government’s debt crisis by symbolically dropping their IHT promise.
I said: “Dropping such a high profile policy would have shock value. It would send the vital message that the country is going bust. That would allow the Conservatives more room to level with the public about the truly horrific situation they will inherit.”
Predictably, up pops Liam Byrne MP to say: “Even David Cameron’s favourite right wing think tank now believes he is wrong to give £200,000 to just 3,000 of the wealthiest estates. It’s time the Tories gave up on their plans to cut public services to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy few.”
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