{"id":16735,"date":"2022-11-17T00:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/17\/pmqs-mcvey-and-raab-on-tax-rises-and-hs2-rail-scheme\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T00:42:06","slug":"pmqs-mcvey-and-raab-on-tax-rises-and-hs2-rail-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=16735","title":{"rendered":"PMQs: McVey and Raab on tax rises and HS2 rail scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A former Tory frontbencher said she could not support tax rises while the HS2 rail project continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Esther McVey, a Cheshire MP whose seat is affected by the line, said Tory MPs should not be asked to back raising taxes while funding HS2..<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Dominic Raab, standing in for Rishi Sunak at PMQs, said it involved &#8220;very difficult decisions&#8221; and told her the chancellor would say more in Thursday&#8217;s Autumn Statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63651082\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Tory MP Esther McVey says she won&#8217;t back tax rises unless HS2 is axed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63651136?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A former Tory frontbencher said she could not support tax rises while the HS2 rail project continued. Esther McVey, a Cheshire MP whose seat is affected by the line, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}