Rebuilding Britain, a new paper published by the IEA and written by former Social Democratic Party leader Lord Owen has been quoted in The Sunday Express’ coverage of the budget, set to be delivered on 15th March.

The article read:

“Former foreign secretary and ex-SDP leader Lord Owen has written in a paper for the Institute of Economic Affairs saying cancelling the intended rise would ‘send the right signals’ to ‘encourage inward investment and more entrepreneurship’.

And Mark Littlewood, director-general of the Institute, said: ‘Britain today faces the highest tax burden since Clement Attlee was Prime Minister.

‘The Chancellor should review his plans to raise corporation tax and instead use his Budget to introduce pro-growth measures to encourage businesses to our shores.'”

The full article can be read here.