The Conservatives are pressing on with their flirtation with a flat tax.
The party launched a review of the concept yesterday, and Sir Christopher Gent, the chairman of pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline, will be among the business dignitaries joining the tax reform commission.
In launching the review, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, said: "If Britain is to compete in the next century, we need the will not just for lower taxes but for simpler, fairer and flatter taxes too."
Out of power for eight years, the Conservatives desperately need to generate some intellectual heat and the flat tax could be their big idea. Normally associated with the political right, it has won support from surprising quarters.
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