Updated
05/03/2021 07:46 GMT
The Budget Is Barely Cold, But Has Rishi Sunak’s Mask Slipped Already?
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If anyone needed further proof that Rishi Sunak is a different kind of Tory chancellor, the morning after the Budget before gave us yet more evidence. On the back of his tax-raising plans, Sunak was asked by the Today programme’s Mishal Husain whether he now rejected the traditional Thatcherite idea that lower taxes generated higher receipts.