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Liam Byrne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

We're here to pick a fight with some vested interests who are not playing by the rules.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

We need to be the party of a more kind of civic capitalism.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

So that's fairness point number one.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Fairness point number two is in the social security system where we now have a country where it is very difficult for people to build wealth and assets.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

And as I've said, the top 1% has multiplied its wealth by 31 times more than everybody else since 2010.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

So the big idea in the book that came before this on the inequality of wealth is an idea, not universal basic income, but universal basic capital.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

And the idea here is that you restore savings matches, tax breaks and incentives for people to build up assets, to put down a deposit on a home to call their own, to retrain, restock their human capital and to save more into a pension.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Is that being done anywhere?

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

It's being done in places like Singapore.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

So Singapore is probably the best example.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

And the way you pay for it is actually by building a sovereign wealth fund, which we're beginning to do.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

If we had not given away North Sea Oil, we would have a sovereign wealth fund of ยฃ500 billion right now.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

But the way that you build it now is by restoring fairness to this tax system and actually introducing...

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

not necessarily a wealth tax, but higher taxes on wealth.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

So if you think about Rishi Sunak's tax return, which I don't know if you've read, it's not very long, it's about a page long.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

The last tax return- 23%.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Was it?

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

Bang on.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

There you go.

The Rest Is Politics
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back

2 million in income, tax rate, 23%.