{"id":125669,"date":"2019-12-31T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/31\/tory-members-want-boris-johnson-to-press-ahead-with-9bn-tax-cut-for-rich-survey-suggests-live-news\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:25:40","slug":"tory-members-want-boris-johnson-to-press-ahead-with-9bn-tax-cut-for-rich-survey-suggests-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125669","title":{"rendered":"Tory members want Boris Johnson to press ahead with \u00a39bn tax cut for rich, survey suggests &#8211; live news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen 12.51pm GMT Since the general election Boris Johnson has been claiming that the Conservatives are now a \u201ctotally different party\u201d because of the success he had at winning over working-class voters and voters in the north (not always the same people, of course). There is some evidence to back up what he is saying; the party is now more popular with working-class voters than it is with middle-class voters. But the character of a party is not just determined by who votes for it. What is even more important is who its MPs are, and who its members are, and a ConservativeHome survey of party members today suggests that the membership has yet to embrace Johnson\u2019s new-found proletarianism. During the Conservative leadership contest Johnson proposed raising the threshold for the higher rate of income tax from \u00a350,000 to \u00a380,000. This would do nothing for those on low or average earnings, and most of the benefit would go to the richest 10% of households, who would each gain about \u00a32,500 a year. According to an Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis (pdf), this would also cost \u00a39bn. 12.18pm GMT The Daily Mirror\u2019s Kevin Maguire, one of the most high-profile Labour-supporting commentators in the media, thinks Jeremy Corbyn sounded \u201cclueless\u201d in his New Year\u2019s message.Understated \u201cquite the year\u201d would work had Labour won the election but it sounds clueless from a leader in denial after a hammer blow fourth defeat. Battered Corbyn should step back completely. Immediately. https:\/\/t.co\/dMOgChB1UIAny self respecting \u201cresistance\u201d doesn\u2019t go into a General Election, voluntarily, on Boris Johnson\u2019s terms.You inept, Tory enabling, trot, idiot. https:\/\/t.co\/rfmGNyXZKt Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2019\/dec\/31\/labour-leadership-corbyn-provokes-anger-from-labour-critics-with-new-years-message-glossing-over-impact-of-election-defeat-live-news\" target=\"_blank\">Tory members want Boris Johnson to press ahead with \u00a39bn tax cut for rich, survey suggests &#8211; live news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happen 12.51pm GMT Since the general election Boris Johnson has been claiming that the Conservatives are now a \u201ctotally different party\u201d because of the success he had at winning over working-class voters and voters in the north (not always the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}