UK’S SUNAK OFFERS MORE TAX CUTS But Election Polls Refuse to Budge
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to cut billions of pounds of taxes and provide help for first-time homebuyers if he wins the July 4 election, launching one of the last throws of the dice for a leader badly lagging in the polls.
With surveys showing the Conservatives consistently about 20 points behind Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, Sunak has stepped up his argument that the opposition would derail the economic recovery and cannot be trusted in government.
Launching the party’s manifesto, containing the policies it will pursue if it forms the next government, Sunak said he would lower payroll taxes and abolish the main rate for self-employed people by the end of the next parliament.
