It is now only seven months until the next General Election.

As the season of political conferences has drawn to a close the dividing line for that general election is clear. On the one hand you have the Labour Party and Ed Miliband at their conference announcing a plan for extra taxes, in particular the so called ‘mansion tax’, where they would levy an annual charge on the owners of properties above a certain price. The reason it is wrong to call this a mansion tax is that due to the high property prices in London, this tax is likely to hit many family homes in Harrow, but not in other parts of Britain.

On the other hand at the Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister David Cameron has committed a Conservative government to cutting taxes for the low paid and helping middle income earners – many of whom have families – stay out of the 40 per cent tax bracket.

As the economy recovers from one of the worst recessions in living memory and many people continue to struggle, it is far better to allow people to keep more of their own money than impose new taxes.

At the next election the choice will be between a prime minister who has cut the deficit and wants to see the recovery benefit everyone and a leader of the opposition who forgot to mention the deficit in his conference speech and who seems more interested in imposing new taxes than tackling welfare spending.

Hannah David

Prospective MP for Harrow West