Gary Stevenson

Most think tanks have ignored me for a long time.

Getting in touch with me, getting in touch with Gabriel Zucman in France.

Tell us how wealth taxes work.

And what what I can see, which maybe you can't see not being in this world of lobbying, suddenly it feels like the whole ship is turning and all of these Labour MPs suddenly want to be my mate and want to talk about wealth taxes.

And I think that is because they have realised exactly what I've been saying here, which is if they don't do wealth taxes now, they are basically like totally f***ed.

So I think I need to

Like, be really clear here about what I'm asking from the Labour Party.

And I want to also sort of let you, the viewers, be clear about what I'm doing behind the scenes.

Because I think that sometimes in the way that I've been portrayed in the media, and especially you've got to recognise, like,

Most politicians read like the very mainstream media, so they don't really see like what they probably don't watch this channel, for example.

And there's been a kind of attempt in the media to sort of portray him as like some sort of like mad communist or something, some sort of super unrealistic guy who doesn't have any economics degrees, none of which is true.

And I've been doing a little bit of a charm offensive behind the scenes to try to talk to Labour MPs and just let them know

i'm not asking and i don't expect um and if you if you have any connections in labor maybe like click this bit or send them this bit i'm not asking and i don't expect labor any new labor prime minister to come in and do wealth taxes on day one i recognize that the correct planning and design of wealth taxes is incredibly important and if they are implemented badly they could have negative consequences

I don't want to introduce anything that is going to hurt the UK economy, right?

I want these things to be planned incredibly well.

We had Gabriel Zucman on the channel the last week.

And the reason that I've spent so long trying to build a really good relationship with Gabriel Zucman is because quite simply, I believe that Gabriel Zucman and his team in France are the best economists in the world on the planning and design of wealth taxes.

And as I've been out here for years now, trying to convince the British public and the British politicians that they should do wealth taxes, if we are gonna get them, I want them to be designed by the best people in the world.

And the fact is, there are people in this country

who are working on wealth taxes, and they're good.