Martin Broughton

“the 50p top tax rate was “a piece of economic vandalism.””

“the Budget had not helped out the ailing economy, and that its measures had been based on “heroic growth assumptions””

“the tax rate equated to a “tearing up of the manifesto commitment to the country’s entrepreneurial class.””

“focusing on core services and cutting back on non-essential ones was preferable to putting up income tax”