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boris johnson on the andrew marr show we dont want to raise taxe

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the pm also refused to rule out raising taxe again just three weeks
before chancellor rishi sunak announces his annual budget

he said he was a zealous opponent of unnecessary taxe rises but
warned the pandemic had hit the uks economy like a fiscal meteorite

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at the time when asked whether he would rule out additional taxe mr
johnson said he could give an emotional commitment that he did not
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earlier this year mr sunak also froze income taxe thresholds  leading
to more people paying the levy  and the extra £ weekly universal
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asked on sunday by andrew marr if he would raise taxe again mr
johnson replied if i can possibly avoid it i do not want to raise
taxe again

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we dont want to raise taxe of course we dont but what we will not
do is  irresponsible with the public finances

we are a low taxe party

cabinet members are warning against any further taxe increases with
leader of the house jacob reesmogg telling a party conference fringe
event that taxe is about the highest level it has been since the war
and we are at the upper reaches of the reasonableness of the taxe
burden

he added we are [at] about the limit of what taxe we can raise

tees valley tory mayor ben houchen also called on the pm to avoid
further taxe rises saying they would not  helpful for businesses
coming out of the pandemic
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but if we want to support those businesses to create those jobs to put
more money in peoples pockets i dont think taxe rises are the way to
go about it
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foreign secretary liz truss insisted the government did not want to put
additional taxe burden on working people saying growing the economy
would pay the bill from covid

she told the bbc none of us want to see taxe rise we are a low taxe
party we understand that it is enterprise that is going to deliver the