To conquer Reform UK, Kemi Badenoch must get back to business – fast
The IndependentThere was an air of unreality about Kemi Badenoch’s end-of-year interview on Radio 4. Relying on the view, which Badenoch appears to be, that your organisation has been around forever – that it’s produced numerous prime ministers and not for nothing is it regarded as the most successful political campaigning body anywhere in history – is not enough. It’s intent on milking the “£22bn black hole” inherited from the Tories as continued justification for tax rises – increases which fall on business, only adding to its woes. Let him present his “10-point plan for strengthening Britain’s shops and businesses’” say, and that window is lost – Brexit or no Brexit, such is their desperation. Favourable treatment from Donald Trump’s US ; meaningful trade deals; closer ties with the EU ; easier immigration not harder, for those with the skills employers need; reduced and simplified business taxes; less red tape and stifling regulation; genuine reform of business rates.
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