Across the Conservative Party, we are united around our belief in the power of business, enterprise and free markets to generate the growth and job creation needed to alleviate poverty and fund our public services.
We are an unabashedly pro-business party that believes in fostering the low-tax environment that the country’s entrepreneurs and wealth creators need to thrive and succeed.
That’s why, over the past 14 years, we have frozen and reduced fuel duties, opened new trade opportunities with fast-growing economies outside the EU, and fully extended investment support.
We have supported our businesses through the pandemic, helping small businesses on our high streets with business rates freezes, and supporting self-employed and sole traders in our statement.
The Conservatives want to give businesses and institutions the freedom to thrive and unleash the country’s entrepreneurial spirit, which is why many of us are campaigning vigorously for lower taxes and less red tape.
But while we support British business, Labor is driven by a hatred of enterprise, wealth creation and success. The public should not be fooled by Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves embracing business. This is just a smokescreen covering their plans to tax companies, markets and investment to pay for their bankrupt policies.
After all, this is the same Keir Starmer who won the Labor leadership by pledging to raise corporate taxes and supporting Jeremy Corbyn and his war on enterprise.
It has just been revealed that the Tribune Group of MPs, Sir Keir, a member of, wants to increase capital gains tax, inheritance tax, hit council tax and hit working pensioners by forcing them to pay National Insurance – all in addition to Labour’s previous plans to tax New to companies they don’t like.
Given that Labour’s manifesto is so vague, promising only a “roadmap for corporate taxation” and its failure to rule out tax rises, there is a clear threat to the economy returning to form if it wins power and squeezes hard-working businesses and families for every penny they can.
The public should be in no doubt that in order to fund all their irresponsible spending commitments and satisfy the desires of the party’s left, Labor will need to cripple businesses with higher taxes.
He still holds the misguided and ideologically motivated belief that you can tax your way to growth, and if the general election result reflects current opinion polls, there will be hundreds more left-wing MPs desperate to pursue their high-tax, anti-business agenda. .
The risks do not stop there. Businesses should also be frightened by the new wave of red tape and union-friendly policies planned by Starmer and Angela Rayner. Labor has pledged to strengthen unions and remove flexibility that benefits employers and employees.
He could easily move to weaken the laws we have introduced to protect businesses from crime and harm caused by protesters.
While British people and British businesses suffer, it seems that the sympathies of too many Labor politicians often lie not with innocent bystanders, but with the activists who cause disruption and damage.
British businesses – and British families – should be deeply disturbed by the prospect of a Labor government in the grip of trade union financiers and left-wing lobbyists.
If a Labor government is elected on July 4, within months British businesses will be hit with higher taxes and strangled by new red tape, leaving Britain facing bankruptcy.
Only by voting Conservative can the interests of British businesses, our country’s SMEs and the self-employed be guaranteed, with growth and prosperity enhanced and achieved with lower tax.