Jeremy Hunt's tax cuts may not improve Tories' popularity with voters

Nov 22, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    4% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Public spending soared during the pandemic."
Positive
24% Conservative
"Meanwhile, the financial projections on which Mr Hunt is relying assume that there will be a significant squeeze on public spending after the next election, even though inflation will push it up."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Taxation has increased to record levels too."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"In contrast to how voters reacted to the rise in taxation and spending under the Labour government of 1997 to 2010, the public have so far shown little sign of reacting against the increase in the size of the state occasioned by the pandemic."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Tax has been hanging like a deep cloud over the ConservativesEver since the pandemic, the question of tax has been hanging like a deep cloud over the Conservatives."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Similarly, Opinium report that only 16 per cent currently believe that taxation and spending should be reduced."
Negative
-16% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Public spending soared during the pandemic.
56% : Meanwhile, the financial projections on which Mr Hunt is relying assume that there will be a significant squeeze on public spending after the next election, even though inflation will push it up.
47% : Taxation has increased to record levels too.
46% : In contrast to how voters reacted to the rise in taxation and spending under the Labour government of 1997 to 2010, the public have so far shown little sign of reacting against the increase in the size of the state occasioned by the pandemic.
44% : Tax has been hanging like a deep cloud over the ConservativesEver since the pandemic, the question of tax has been hanging like a deep cloud over the Conservatives.
42% : Similarly, Opinium report that only 16 per cent currently believe that taxation and spending should be reduced.

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