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Kemi Badenoch: “This is not what we do. We are just taxing and taxing. The government has run out of ideas. There's no imagination.”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2026
This is not what we do. We are just taxing and taxing. The government has run out of ideas. There's no imagination.
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Kemi Badenoch
Conservative Party

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of the proposed tourism tax.

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