Gary Stevenson

They're good, you know, and I have basically in many ways, gone over their head to Gabriel Zucman, because I want these to be designed by the best people in the world.

Like, I want it to be clear, because I think a lot of maybe Labour MPs have got the wrong impression on this.

I'm not trying to destroy Labour.

I want Labour to win the next election.

The reason I've been strategically attacking Labour in many ways for the last two years is because I want to force them to reach a situation where they have to do the policy which they need to do.

So what I'm asking of these politicians when I meet them, and I'm having to spend a lot of time meeting people and sending emails at the moment, put a little bit of money together, get a team of economists to do a really serious study on how to do these wealth taxes well.

Speak to me, speak to Gabriel Zucman and his team, give it a couple of years, design the best wealth tax you possibly can, and be ready to do it before the next election.

And what I've been telling these MPs is if they do this thing, if they create the team that can really, really do the analysis to make sure that this thing is perfectly designed,

If I can talk to those guys, if I can look them in the eye, if I can see seriousness, then I will go out on my channels and I will tell everyone, finally, we have a government that is being serious about dealing with this problem of growing inequality.

Basically, what I'm saying is that I'm here to back it.

I'm here to support it.

I will work, you know, I will do everything I can to make sure you win the next election if you show me seriousness on working towards fixing this problem.

And we could get it.

It's just like, it's quite crazy.

You know, I'm not saying that we will get it.

I think we have to be like realistic here.

As I've always said, and has always been true, the vast majority of the richest and most powerful people in the world

will work hard and will lobby hard these politicians to try and make sure they don't do wealth taxes like they want anything except wealth taxes and now i go into parliament quite a lot to meet politicians and i went in last week and um there was like a queue down the street of like lobbyists because everybody knows there's going to be a new prime minister and everybody wants to make sure that they get the policies that they want um and we have to be realistic that we here are essentially just one lobby group that's trying to get what we want out of andy burnham or whoever the next prime minister is

but what we have that they don't have is basically fucking four and a half million followers on social media and the ability to go and tell the public these guys are actually doing it and i think what what we need so the risk is and you know this is coming up in conversations i'm having with politicians behind the scenes is they say to me

We need something quicker than that.