Commenting on Gordon Brown’s budget, Liberal Democrat Leader Menzies Campbell said:
“The big increase in taxation is a doubling of the starting rate of income tax rate.
“The income tax changes announced in the budget will mean that anyone earning less than around £15,000 will pay more in income tax.
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Ming discusses the results of yesterday’s Green Tax Switch Debate, Charles Kennedy and a visit to the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
The consultation on poverty that Ming references can be found here.
Ming Campbell reflects on the upcoming ‘Green Tax Switch’ debate:
Ming Campbell introduces the Liberal Democrats new policy document “Trust in people: make Britain free, fair and green” in the following video shot at the launch press conference last week:
July 6, 2006: Ming Campbell speaks to the City of London at the London Stock Exchange in association with CentreForum:
Elections show that my party is a powerful force across Britain.
Beating Labour in Dunfermline and West Fife earlier this year; beating Labour in the local elections in May and then within a whisker of beating the Conservatives in Bromley.
Three party politics is here and here to stay.
Our voice – raising issues that the other parties and the fashionable commentators miss – is critical to British politics.
And now as both Labour and the Conservatives want to close down debate on the tax system and tax structure, I believe it is time to open up that debate.
It is a debate that the Liberal Democrats will not shy from, and it is a debate that will be better informed with input from the City. No serious political party with ambitions to reach government should fail to take account of the needs of British business and industry.
