SIR - There are two new mantras spreading across the media spewed up by the ever increasingly left wing bunch made up of MPs from the SNP, Green, Lib/Dem and Labour Party.
First new invention starting from the PM’s speech on EU negotiations is the use of the words “Tory Brexit”. This is a complete fallacy! The UK departure from the EU is the British People’s Brexit, carried forward by the Conservative party on behalf of the voting majority on Referendum Day.
The second is that business taxation must not be reduced. There is sense in moderate reductions to help employers to cope with the burden of the £9 per hour living wage set to be implemented by 2020. The present rate of £7.20 per hour will over the next three years increase by a significant 25 per cent. Many employers doubt they can sustain such an increase in their annual wage bill.
This is a two-edged sword as easing financial taxation pressure on business reduces the likely return to rising unemployment.
A new left-wing Labour government wants top rate income tax and corporation tax set equally at eye-watering levels. Thankfully Corbyn makes them unelectable.
Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley
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