🔥 Tory Conference Erupts as Rishi Sunak Withholds Tax Cut Pledge! 😱

Rishi Sunak in Hot Water at Tory Bash Over Tax Cut Vow Miss

By Glen Owen and Dan Hodges

Updated: 17:35 EDT, 26 August 2023

Get ready for a Tory showdown as Rishi Sunak faces a firestorm from his own MPs at the conference over his failure to cough up the goods on pre-election tax cuts.

There’s a gang gearing up to pounce on the numbers from last week that showed government borrowing dropped by £11 billion. They’re waving the flag for a break on the tax load for families and businesses, which, by the way, is sky-high, reaching a level we haven’t seen in 70 years.

And this ain’t just any old ruckus. It’s a fever pitched amongst the Right side of the party, stirred even louder by their failure to put a dent in Labour’s poll advantage. Yep, time is ticking, and we’re just over a year out from when the election drum starts to beat.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt? Yeah, he tossed a wet blanket on the tax-cut flame last week. He’s saying we gotta stay the course, stay responsible with the public cash.

But there’s more intrigue than a spaghetti Western here. Downing Street’s keeping an eagle eye on some Cabinet honchos – Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch and Home Secretary Suella Braverman. They’re discreetly shadowboxing to be the Right’s torchbearers, side by side with former big shots like ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Hold tight, the curtain’s about to go up. The Manchester conference next month is the stage. The real action? Those speeches they’re crafting. Watch close.

Tory MP Danny Kruger, a bigwig tax hawk, didn’t mince words. He laid it out to The Mail on Sunday: “We ain’t got time to dilly-dally. We gotta show folks why the Tories are where it’s at. We’re the only ones with the nation’s soul in our sights.”

Danny Kruger, repping Devizes in Wiltshire, he’s got a point to make: “If we wanna light this fire, if we wanna get folks believing, we gotta slash taxes. Let people run wild with their own cash. Sunak’s getting a gold star for steadying the ship, but now, to pump life back into our party, to make us sing to voters again, we gotta drop the tax hammer. Not someday, but this fall, and if I had my say, right at the Conservative Party shindig in October.”

Kruger, who’s got a seat at the Treasury Committee, he spells it out: “Last week, we get word that the cash the public’s gotta pay back, the first four months this year, it’s £11 billion less than what that shaky Office for Budget Responsibility guessed. It ain’t ’cause we ain’t spending. Oh, we’re spending all right. Always do these days.

Tory MP Danny Kruger, who is a leading tax hawk, told The Mail on Sunday that there was ‘no time to lose to show why voters should stick with the Conservatives and demonstrate how we are the only party with the true interests of the nation at heart’

“But the deal here? We got more moolah rollin’ in from taxes than we thought. That means Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s got some fancy footwork room to play, maybe give us some sweet tax relief.

“We need a shot in the arm for the folks in the hustle, let ’em do right by their kin and community.”

One Tory insider didn’t hold back: “The ants in our pants are real as we head for the big dance. Everyone’s whispering about Kemi and Suella, wondering who’ll make the leap in Manchester. Clock’s tickin’, and we’re racing against the election clock.”

Ms. Badenoch, back when she was gunning for the leader’s spot in 2022, she wasn’t up for a “who’s got the biggest tax-cut” duel with the other contenders. Braverman, though, she was dancing to a tax-cutting tune. And Patel? She’s out front leading the charge for Hunt to do a U-turn on that corporation tax spike.

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