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Let's talk to Rod Liddle, columnist at the Sun and indeed Times, of course.

Rod, in God we trust, all others pay cash is the famous sign that hangs around over a lot of bars in America.

He's not doing a great job this guy, Andrew Bailey, is he?

He reminds me of the character in Airplane, who, as the stricken plane is coming into land, someone says to him,

shouldn't we turn on the runway lights?

And he says, no, that's just what they'll be expecting us to do.

It does seem a bit counterintuitive.

That being said, a lot of these problems could be averted if the government were to

introduce a two or three percent tax, dropping taxes for that middle income ban, the ones who are

currently paying 40%. That would help mortgage owners enormously, would also get the economy going.

But I know Rishi Sunak has said that he would like to see a decrease in taxation,

but he said it in much the same way that, you know, I would quite like Ex-Benetic for lunch.

I'm not going to get it.

Right, yeah. Yeah, well, he talks a good game, doesn't he, Rishi Sunak. I mean, he's the master of,

this is what I'm going to do, and then doesn't do it. You know, I'm going to stop the boats, are you?

Absolutely. It's one of my five key planks of policy. Have you stopped the boats? No, I haven't. No, no, indeed. And of course,

he's also got Jeremy Hunter, the Treasury to contend with, which, you know, one really wouldn't want

to do. No. So he's in a cleft stick. He's tied by the fact that Labor is 20 points ahead or 17 points ahead and there's nothing much it seems that he could do about it.

No.

Though if he introduced tax cuts for that middle income bracket, he would be able to do something about it.

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