This worms for turning

Despite Rupert's lukewarm backing for Camonblair (my reading, based on The Insider, is that he still feels a residual loyalty to Tony for the war, which won't extend to Gordon) it hasn't taken much for the Times to start turning the tanker to the right...

The task for the Conservatives now is to come up with an alternative to the outdated economics of Mr Blair and Mr Brown. They have been following a model that other countries abandoned in the 1990s. The average tax burden across the industrialised world was 39% in 1997 - identical to Britain's - but is now 37%. The Labour government is taxing its citizens and businesses more at a time when other countries are doing so less. It is the road to an unsuccessful, uncompetitive economy. Ultimately it is the road to ruin.