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My Intervention on the Windsor Framework Motion 2- Stormont Brake
My Intervention on the Windsor Framework Motion 2 – Green lanes
John Redwood:
Someone wanting to send goods from GB to NI would naturally expect to use the new internal market lane—the green lane. Who decides whether they would not be allowed to do so? Would it be the EU, the UK Government or the Stormont Executive?
Chris Heaton-Harris (Secretary of State for...Read More »
My Intervention on the Windsor Framework motion 1 – VAT
John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con):
If the Chancellor of the Exchequer wishes to lower the VAT rate or to take something out of VAT altogether, will that be a good law for Northern Ireland as well as for the rest of the UK, and can we now set taxes for the whole...Read More »
UK divergence from the EU
When I voted for Brexit I voted for change. I saw how far the EU was lagging behind the USA, and behind Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, three small countries not in the EU in income per head. The latest IMF figures show that the USA now has twice the...Read More »
Headroom for tax cuts
Briefings from Treasury and OBR say little room for tax cuts. This is all based on OBR forecasts which have been wildly wrong in recent years. They have mainly been too pessimistic about revenues, greatly exaggerating the deficit.
The government must help itself by curbing spending and correcting obvious forecasting errors....Read More »