Date published: 2007/08/12
The BBC says:
Tory leader David Cameron is looking at plans to cut £14bn in red tape and regulation for UK businesses.
The plans have been put forward by John Redwood - one of the most senior figures on the Tory right - who called them "a tax cut by any other name".
The focus is on easing regulation such as data protection laws, rules on hours, and health and safety regimes.
Labour claims the proposals show the party is lurching back to the right in the face of disappointing polls.
Mr Redwood told the BBC's Sunday programme the proposals were aimed at improving Britain's "ability to compete".
You have to wonder why the Tories are bothering to espouse such policies. No business person will believe them (every opposition party always claims they will cut red tape and every government makes the red tape worse, not better). And ordinary voters could care less about this. So who exactly is this supposed to appeal to?
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