Jenrick, Cleverly, Badenoch and Tugendhat to all get 20 minutes to pitch their vision to membersTom Tugendhat said it is “upsetting” that his Conservative leadership rival Robert Jenrick used footage of a soldier Tugenhdat served with in Afghanistan to claim UK special forces were “killing rather than capturing” terrorists.Jenrick has been widely-criticised for the campaign video in which he claimed special forces were acting like this through fear of detainees being released under European human rights law.What’s particularly upsetting is that video is using a piece of footage of some of the people I served with, one of whom there died shortly after that film was taken in an accident, and is not able to defend himself from the accusation that is effectively being levelled against him.I do not think we should be using footage of our special forces in operations.At the last general election, my party – the Conservative party – was being criticised by the Labour party for taxing too much.If we don’t start cutting taxes, we stifle the economy and we will ultimately not be able to thrive as a country.Your argument is because one of my predecessors proposed it, we can never propose it?This is why we have now got the highest tax burden since the war. Higher than many of our international competitors and high enough that the Labour party felt liberated to criticise us. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2024-10-02 08:37:10
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