“We have no plans to increase tax at all.”

— Tony Blair

Philip Bassett, "Blair pledges he will not raise tax", The Times, 21 September 1995, p. 1.
Response to questioning about Labour Party tax plans at a CBI seminar in Birmingham, 20 September 1995.
1990s

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