50 minutes | Thursday, 14 December 2023
Tynwald gave Government two modest defeats this week as well as pointing out that Government is missing a number of its own targets. Statistics show that the population is growing by 230 people a year but the Chief Minister is convinced that his government’s flagship target of an extra ten thousand people. The Treasury Minister announced that he will be announcing his tax strategy in February but most taxes will stay the same. Tynwald may have been in training for a couple of years but it certainly appears to be throwing some well placed punches at government this month.