1/3 Lying to the public is about to become a crime in the UK.
Ministers, civil servants, police, the military: all covered by the new Hillsborough Law.
Guess who isn't? The people writing it.
Our national debt has just hit £3 trillion.
We were told by the "grown ups" in both parties that putting up taxes, Net Zero and high immigration would bring the debt down.
This is the counterfactual of what I sought to do in the Mini-Budget.
And it has been a disaster.
This issue has been written about multiple times by so many journalists over many years. I think Telegraph has probably banged the drum more frequently than others. Yet, Government hasn't listened, and we have people downing tools when they get to £100K, or funnelling the cash into pensions, ready for for early retirement. Bonkers.
@DraperOr Go and ask any search engine or AI “What is the difference between a tax rate and a marginal tax rate”. It says “marginal tax rate” in the article.
Everyone needs to be alive to this Bill and write to their MP, and try and ensure MPs are not excluded from the law that is designed to prevent them making deliberately misleading statements. This is massive. Forget Healey and his Budget. Follow this. Write to your MP.
It's happening again: the Conservative front bench want to delay the Hillsborough Law's Misleading the Public offence until the government finishes a review. No deadline.
It's only a probing amendment for now. If it came back for a vote at Report stage, that would be bad.