Cuts in Tax and Red Tape Top Contender's Bill

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DONALD MACINTYRE

Political Editor

John Redwood yesterday unveiled a programme tinged with populism - and a touch of monarchism - with tougher law and order, tax cuts, opposition to the single currency, repatriation of European Union powers and cutting bureaucracy, at the top of his priorities.

He used his second crowded press conference of the campaign to declare confidently that it was "time to deliver" on the tax promises that won the Conservative Party its 1992 general election victory, and that the "first task" of a new administration would be to cut the "waste and unnecessary expenditure" in the pounds 303bn Government spending …