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Carbon tax plan gets binned by Boris Johnson amid fear it would spark a rise in food prices
The UK Government has “killed off” the idea of a carbon tax that “could have seen huge
price rises for meat, cheese and gas”, reports the Daily Mail. Following reporting yesterday
by the Times of a Whitehall memo on carbon pricing – which Channel 4 News “confirmed” –
a government source tells the Mail that ministers would not be proceeding after prime
minister Boris Johnson blocked the idea. The source adds: “We have absolutely no intention
of putting a carbon tax on meat or other food products.” Yesterday morning, the prime
minister’s official spokesman declined to rule out the policy – as reported by the Independent
– but “at 6pm the plan was ditched”, the Mail says. The Sun has a similar story, reporting
that a senior No 10 official told the paper last night: “This is categorically not going to
happen…We will not be imposing a meat tax on the great British
banger or anything else.”
Boris Johnson desecha el plan de impuestos al carbono por temor a que podría provocar un
alza en el precio de los alimentos