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29 September 2013

Cameron jokes about “mental health lobby“ after describing Miliband’s plans as “nuts“

The PM digs himself a deeper hole on The Andrew Marr Show.

By George Eaton

After rather unwisely describing Ed Miliband’s plan to raise corporation tax from 20% to 21% as “nuts” in his interview in the Sunday Telegraph, David Cameron dug himself a deeper hole on The Andrew Marr Show this morning.

After again referring to the policy as “nuts” (“Land Rover makes money around the world. Miliband want to put up their taxes. That’s nuts.”), while carefully omitting to note that Miliband has pledged to use the revenue to cut tax rates for small businesses, Cameron quipped:

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