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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social

have there been any focus groups digging into how the public would balance the trade-offs between pledge/desire to avoid rises to the main taxes, negative effects of other tax rises, high borrowing costs and need for additional money for public services?

aug 28, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social

feels a bit crazy that public opinion, or a spectre of it, is a massive constraint on the chancellor, and yet there’s not much of an attempt that I can see to work out what public opinion actually is on these trade-offs

aug 28, 2025, 5:27 pm • 1 0 • view