Question: when was the last time the BBC felt able feature a headline, Lib Dems on inflation rise, and know it would be taken seriously? Thanks to the party’s shadow chancellor, Vince Cable, the BBC News Politics site has been prominently featuring a talking head from Vince for the last day. And well worth watching it is, too.
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Vince is the mutt’s nuts.
The ALTER event at conference will be very interesting on this subject:
Dr Adrian Wrigley will be outlining a liberal approach to systemic fiscal reform, which gives us tools to deal with different inflationary pressure separately.
Vince Cable will be responding.
The event is titled “Taxation, Wealth and Social Mobility”
Some background will be appearing at http://fiscalreform.blogspot.com