CAM: I'LL HELP RICH.Byline: BOB ROBERTS DAVID Cameron  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. yesterday admitted the poor would shoulder the cost
of his plans to cut taxes for the rich.
The Tory leader said he was ready to keep his promise to cut inheritance tax inheritance tax, assessment made on the portion of an estate received by an individual; it differs from an estate tax, which is a tax levied on an entire estate before it is distributed to individuals. for the very wealthy. He told the BBC's Politics Show: "There's still opportunity to put some taxes up in order to take some taxes down." He also warned of big spending cuts to public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. if the Tories win the election. In a speech in Cheltenham, he said the Tories would usher in a "culture of thrift" and 5.5million public workers should accept "pay will reflect the economic situation". Minister Alan Johnson said: "He showed that Tory instinct to make the many suffer to pay for tax cuts for the very wealthiest." It was also revealed yesterday that Mr Cameron took an all-expenses paid "freebie" to apartheid South Africa in 1989 - paid for by a firm which lobbied against sanctions while Nelson Mandela was still in prison. Ex-minister Peter Hain said: "He asks us to judge a leader's character - well, Gordon Brown was in anti-apartheid at this time, and Cameron had a sanctions-busting jolly." CAPTION(S): VOW Cameron in Cheltenham for speech yesterday |
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