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Malcolm Offord Defends Reform UK Tax Cuts Amid IFS Credibility Dispute

Malcolm Offord, a former Tory peer, has defended Reform UK's plans for major tax cuts in Scotland, which the Institute for Fiscal Studies has described as 'not fiscally credible'.
Offord dismissed the IFS as a 'siren voice of the status quo' and an 'oracle to be obeyed', arguing that tax cuts would stimulate economic growth and that cutting just 3% of the Scottish budget is achievable.
Offord also criticized the Scottish Tories as 'irrelevant' in this election campaign, while Reform UK leader Russell Findlay accused Offord of 'confirming the failures of their own argument' by questioning the IFS's validity.

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