Labour’s tax-raising, interventionist approach is strangling the economy. Conservatives must make the positive case that individuals, families and businesses make better decisions for themselves than distant bureaucrats, says Brandon Lewis

Among its many crises and policy reversals in the past few weeks, a leaked memo from Angela Rayner revealed that a vocal subset of the party is quite eager to raise taxes on savers and pilfer from pensioners.

That pressure has not only come from the party’s left flank. Now – following the International Monetary Fund’s warning last week over the country’s ‘fragile’ economic outlook – speculation abounds that Rachel Reeves will have to break her fiscal rules and raise taxes in order to balance the books.

To date, Labour has been consistent in its desire to broaden the government’s reach and drive state-forced interventions. Much criticism has been levied against the party for mucking about in........

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