British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think

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2024-07-31  1022  困难

In comparison, Lord Cameron’s memoir spends precisely one paragraph on the biggest tax rise of his tenure. In 2010 his government raised £13bn a year by increasing vat by 2.5 percentage points to 20%, its highest level ever. It was a huge rise, yet attracted little opprobrium at the time and is now largely forgotten.

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