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You can’t help the poor by hammering the wealthy

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You can’t help the poor by hammering the wealthy

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By Matthew Elliott
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The former health secretary’s proposal will not raise working-class wages - Neil Hall/EPA/Shutterstock As the contest to replace Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister gets underway, one hopeful Wes Streeting has set out his central economic offer: equalise capital gains tax with income tax, raising the rate to 40 or 45 per cent for higher earners. He says it will raise £12bn a year. He calls it fairness. The idea is not new, nor is it limited to Labour’s internal contest.
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Public sector expansion masks the true extent of Britain’s jobs crisis

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By Matthew Elliott
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On Tuesday, the Office for National Statistics will publish the latest monthly data on employment levels across the UK. It is unlikely to be a pretty picture. Whilst unemployment is not yet top of the news agenda, the month-by-month story of the figures paints an alarming picture. Our headline unemployment figure of 5.1 per cent may look fairly benign in comparison to Germany’s 6.3 per cent or France’s 7.9 per cent, but when you drill into the data, a worrying story emerges.
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