The Telegraph, November 18
The Conservatives have a “remote” chance of winning the next general election unless Jeremy Hunt changes course and reverses the tax increases in the Autumn Statement, a former Tory Cabinet minister has warned.
David Jones MP said that Tory MPs would be considering voting against some of the measures including the freezing of income tax thresholds.
He added that many of the measures announced by the Chancellor could have been made by his Labour opposite number Rachel Reeves.
Speaking on Friday’s Chopper’s Politics podcast, he said: “One of the things that we as a party have got to be careful of is the voters looking at the conservatives and looking at the Labour Party and saying, well, frankly, what’s the difference? Because that’s not the way that you win elections.”
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