Oh dear. As the Conservative £2,000 tax claim continues to implode, poor Bim Afolami has been sent out on the airwaves to prop up his party. Only Sky News aren’t taking his defence quite as well as he might have hoped.
‘How much has tax gone up under the Conservatives over the last parliament term, per household?’ Sky News’s Sophie Ridge quizzed the former Tory politician.
‘Well it’s difficult to calculate,’ Alofami confessed, before his interviewer stepped in again.
‘I’ll give you the answer,’ Rigby replied. ‘Since 2019, according to our Economics Data Editor Ed Colway and analysing OBR figures, taxes have gone up £13,000 per household since 2019. £2,000 sounds like a bit of a bargain in comparison, doesn’t it?’
‘I don’t recognise that number, frankly, because I’ve never seen that calculation,’ Alofami stuttered. ‘What I know is that the real disposable income, the amount of money that actually somebody is left with…is over £1,000 higher…now than it was in 2010.
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