The United Kingdom is having national elections this year and campaigns are underway, but the governing Conservatives appear to be hoping voters won’t notice they are promising tax cuts while actually pushing taxation to historic highs by underhand means. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to state broadcaster the BBC’s television news on Sunday and made clear his big offer to the country in the forthcoming general election this year was cutting taxes. While he played up a new tax cut that came into effect this weekend, Sunak has been hammered for failing to admit this much-vaunted cut is actually dwarfed...
