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Are the people who benefit from this going to vote Tory though, which is the goal?
It's just such a tiny demographic though. According to gov stats there are only 630k additional rate taxpayers in the entire country, presumably concentrated in a small number of London (safe Lab) and Home Counties (safe Con) constituencies? Very few in the traditional Middle England battlegrounds, you would think.
It's so puzzling. I could have understood giveaways to the red wall or whatever, but this must be ideologically-driven, i.e. they think it was "unfair" that Labour raised this rate from 40p to 45p, or somehow it's going to raise more money in the long run by stimulating growth.
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Are the people who benefit from this going to vote Tory though, which is the goal?
I guess it's been focus grouped or whatever, but I'd like to imagine that if I earned 250K a year (lol) , that I would cost more than 5K in tax savings to be bought like that. It's not enough (is it?) to make a behaviour change compared to the risk posed by poor police / ambulance / services
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Are the people who benefit from this going to vote Tory though, which is the goal?
That FT post suggests the answer is no - people would prefer not to lie on the floor of their bathroom for 9 hours before the ambulance arrives.