OPINION - Tom Newton Dunn: Rachel Reeves plots to add new council tax bands... plus an income tax cut

You’ll tax this. Well you’ll tax that. But you’ve got a secret tax bombshell. Well you’ve already taxed the pants off everything, and you’re dirty stinking liars to boot.

Saint Nigel’s resurrection aside, I suspect that’s the sum takeaway from the general election campaign this week for about 99.5 per cent of us.

To put it mildly, it’s been somewhat tedious. Yet in all the confected noise about tax this week, it looks like Jeremy Hunt did actually hit a bullseye, even if he doesn’t quite know how yet. The arrow came yesterday in a typical campaign punt when the Chancellor challenged his likely successor to rule out raising any of the current taxes on property.