✍️ "Introducing a wealth tax would be an economically destructive, administrative nightmare." Tom Clougherty for The Times and The Sunday Times 👇

📩 New Digest! Read for takes on fiscal illusions, wealth taxes, nuclear power and liberalism (obviously). Incl: Robert Colvile Tom Clougherty Nick Timothy MP Kristian Niemietz Dan Neidle Paul Johnson Rebecca Lowe Tom Tugendhat

🚨LIBERATING THE LABOUR MARKET 🚨 ✍️ by Len Shackleton

The Government has made two key promises: 1) to prioritise economic growth 2) to not tax working people. The Employment Rights Bill, back in Parliament today, effectively breaks both of these promises. 🧵

💣 "It's not far off basically doubling every single person's income tax bills, to afford those increased services, or that increased cost of an aging population." Tom Clougherty breaks down the maths behind Britain's demographic time bomb. 👇

On this week's podcast, we talk about financial regulation, the latest labour market statistics, and whether people are really willing to pay higher taxes to fund public services.