with columnists from the guardian, stephanie baker of bloomberg news and work of the sydney morning herald. so, cuts to income tax, corporation tax, national insurance and stamp duty and removing the cap on bankers bonuses. it will cost tens of billions and the government says it will boost growth, the labour party say it will reward the rich. stephanie, let s start with you. is this gamble for growth that s going to pay off? it s certainly a gamble, but i have doubts about whether it will pay off. kwasi kwarteng says he want to booth grouped by two and a half percent. but that s delivering a bit of a sugar rush, and i m not sure that will be sustained over the long term. some people have compared this to hitting the accelerator and slamming on the brakes at the same time because what you have is on the one hand, the bank of england trying to control inflation. trying to cool demand by hiking interest rates while the treasury s pumping money into the economy. so i think tha
takes incredible courage to come out against the regime. i don t think that the west is doing enough to support those people who are opposing putin and need some sort of option and support. in the soviet period, we had a de facto programme and we had nothing anywhere near that, and i think the strategy has been keep them in russia so that they overthrow putin s regime and i don t think that s realistic necessarily. don t think that s realistic necessarily. don t think that s realistic necessaril . ~ , necessarily. we said putin is doubfinu necessarily. we said putin is doubling down necessarily. we said putin is doubling down by necessarily. we said putin is doubling down by mobilisingj necessarily. we said putin is - doubling down by mobilising hundreds of thousands of people of troops. should the west now double down? shall be be pouring more weaponry into ukraine? i shall be be pouring more weaponry into ukraine? into ukraine? i think that s already happening. into ukraine?
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