Sentences with phrase «tax bombshell»

Personal taxation is traditionally a thorny area for Labour - witness the 1992 «Tory tax bombshell» that helped sink Neil Kinnock's campaign - but this time it's caused more problems for the Conservatives.

RANDOM STAT: Theresa May's warnings about a Labour tax bombshell didn't seem to be working.

So long as he avoided a move as politically disastrous as his slashing of the 50p top rate, so long as he didn't riddle his text with a cluster of tax bombshells — like those that exploded in the face of grannies and pasty - eaters — the Conservative benches would exhale with relief.

The Tories actually gained 1 % in their share of the vote — compared with 2010 - after running a powerful tax bombshell campaign against Labour.

But Labour left it to the Lib Dems to campaign against the Tory VAT tax bombshell.

«Labour's secret spending plans, which Gordon Brown never wanted to make public, appear to reveal an income tax bombshell,» Mr Osborne said.

Finally, it has been revealed in an official Treasury document signed off by a Treasury Minister that there is a secret tax bombshell to increase VAT to 18.5 per cent.»

«The previous Government increased fuel duty four times in their last 16 months in office... They left many tax bombshells, but perhaps that pre-planned tax increase was the tax road mine.

They want the Labour Party to pile on costly spending commitments so they can add them up and turn them into an ugly tax bombshell.

That suggests the Tories will struggle to damage Ed Miliband and Ed Balls in the next election campaign simply by warning of a Labour tax bombshell if elected.

Coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats actively campaigned against changing the rate by launching a poster campaign dubbed the «Tory tax bombshell» (pictured below).

It was a bizarre experience looking at the papers in the days following the election of Ed Miliband as Labour leader, an almost «Life on Mars» moment (one decade on) as I read about Labour «lurching to the left», «Labour tax bombshells» and, of course, «Red Ed».

When Labour chose to reject the targets in 1992, the incumbent Conservatives were able to successfully campaign on the slogan of «Labour's tax bombshell».

Might the explanation be more political, for example in the dominance of fiscal squeezes led by right - of - centre governments since the 1970s or of the use of electoral tactics such as those employed by the Conservatives in the 1990s (repeated in the 2010s) of challenging the Labour opposition to pledge to match its ambitious proposed spending cuts in the future (or face election - campaign accusations of secretly planning a «tax bombshell»)?

This perception will not be helped by Murphy's decision today to launch a new campaign poster based on the Tory «tax bombshell» from 1992.

At the next election, David Cameron will be looking to re-run the «tax bombshell» campaign of 1992 - with which he was intimately involved in the Conservative Research Department.

Come the next election, Cameron will want to re-run the Tories «tax bombshell» election campaign of 1992.

Modelled on the Tories» «tax bombshell» campaign in 1992, the Lib Dem poster depicted the following words on a mock second world war bomb:

It's an echo of the Tories» own 1992 poster on Labour's «tax bombshell», which put paid to Neil Kinnock's hopes of entering Downing Street.

During the April general election campaign the Liberal Democrats campaigned against «a hidden Tory tax» and launched a poster campaign dubbed the «Tory tax bombshell».

The Tories «tax bombshell» had fatally wounded Neil Kinnock in 1992.

Family homes in middle England which enjoy lower rates of crime, less traffic or a friendly community now face the prospect of another tax bombshell.

They said it was a «Tory tax bombshell».

Asked by Andrew Marr whether this meant higher income tax levels and whether Labour would face accusations from its opponents of a «tax bombshell» at the next election - as it did in 1992 - he said this «depended on who is required to pay the additional tax».