The Tory leadership could be talking like Boris soon
So Boris is attacking the 50p tax rate again – and rightly so. In his Telegraph column today, the Mayor of London repeats the lines he pushed in April: that the measure will drive business talent away from our shores, that it will damage London’s competitiveness, and that it could actually lose money for the Exchequer. It all comes to a punchy conclusion: “What Gordon Brown wants to do is therefore economically illiterate.” I imagine a few commentators will see that last line as a veiled attack on the Tory leadership, given that they’re committed to the tax rate too. But, as Tim Montgomerie says over at ConservativeHome, and going
