I’d prefer to be Nigel Lawson but I need to be prudent like Gordon Brown, says Jeremy Hunt ahead of Budget
Sir John Redwood, who ran Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit during Lord Lawson’s time at the Treasury, said Mr Hunt had misunderstood the example set by the former chancellor. “He doesn’t understand the first thing about Nigel Lawson and Margaret Thatcher’s tax cutting strategy,” he told The Telegraph. More efficient Civil Service Mr Hunt also said he wanted public spending to be more efficient in order to satisfy voter demands for European-level services paid for by US taxation levels. It’s the old thing isn’t it: can we have European public services and American levels of tax?” Mr Hunt said. “The only way that we have a chance of delivering something like that is by spending the money that we spend on public services much more efficiently.” He added: “I think that breaking glass ceilings should be the job of every boss in every public sector organisation but I’m not convinced that paying people large sums of money specifically to do those jobs is the right thing.
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