The race to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister comes at a time of genuine national crisis on a number of fronts – with soaring inflation and war in Europe against a backdrop of pandemic recovery and the impacts of Brexit.
The leadership race has quickly focused on a number of key economic issues, particularly the wisdom, or otherwise, of immediate tax cuts in an effort to stimulate growth. Or indeed how one squares the circle of funding tax cuts when the UK’s prospects for economic growth and funding public services, levelling-up investments, and greening the economy continue to be a matter of real concern.
