Lord Hannan fumes as Labour’s tax burden punishes Britons while levels soar to WW2 levels

Former Conservative MEP and crossbench peer Lord Hannan has hit out at Britain's record tax burden, arguing the Government should be cutting taxes rather than increasing them.

Lord Hannan, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, said taxes are now at their highest level since 1947.

“Just imagine that in 1947, there was a weekly ration of one egg, one fresh egg per family per week,” he told GB News.

“We were still in a completely mobilised economy. We'd gathered all our resources to defeat Nazism. The state was directing all our energies, and now we've somehow crept back up to that level in peacetime.”

He asked: “How can the conversation be about anything other than cutting taxes, at the very least, to where we were before the pandemic?”

Lord Hannan argued that reducing taxes would require the Government to cut spending, including reducing the size of the civil service and reforming the benefits system.

“We need to cut spending,” he said.

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