Number 3 at the Treasury here, showing all the touch of his superiors Kwarteng and Philp.
Andrew Griffith, a City minister under Kwasi Kwarteng, said tax was not his policy area but inheritance tax would be his top choice for a tax to abolish.
There's £6.1bn of revenues blithely waved away. Run that one past the markets in the current climate. Sure, people have various alternatives that may be harder to avoid and raise more money, but fuck it, Mr Griffith can clear up his own mess.
Plus some strange riffing.
“I celebrate wealth creating and risk taking,” he told the CPS event. “We’ve got to drive that into the system. It can’t be right that the only time a businessman is ever on the BBC is that they’re greedy, underpaying their staff or exploiting consumers. That cannot be right … The answer is that we – and this is why our new prime minister is so fantastic – have to be politically brave and have the courage of our convictions. Not enough of us make first principle defences of why it’s so important.”
Maybe the "BBC" feature bad behaving business because some businesses behave badly, and that's news? What on earth does this have to do with anything Liz Truss does?
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