Oh Dear, Mr Hunt.

Fed Up With High Tax Tories? Try Reform Instead, Tice Tells Billionaire Industrialist Dyson.

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OLIVER JJ LANE

21 Mar 2024

A meeting between the inventor and industrialist who is one of Britain’s richest men and the government ended in acrimony, with the finance minister inviting Dyson to try entering politics himself if he thinks he can do better. But the leader of the Nigel Farage-founded Reform UK party Richard Tice says the billionaire should get in touch if he’s interested in working with a low tax, pro-business party.

Sir James Dyson, who invented the bagless vacuum cleaner in the 1980s and turned it into a multi-billion dollar business  met with Chancellor (finance minister) at Downing Street last week and, according to a report on the meeting by The Times newspaper the talk soon got side-tracked from its intended purpose to a dust up about the government’s failures. Per the report, Dyson is said to have told the government it should cut taxes and reduce the size of the state, giving the flourishing industry of ‘diversity managers’ within government bodies as an example of waste to cut.

Jeremy Hunt to James Dyson: become an MP ‘if you can do a better job’ Steven Swinford, Political Editor The chancellor had a fiery exchange with the British inventor during a meeting last Wednesday

The Financial Times reports a source who said of the meeting: “It was an awful meeting, to the extent that Hunt told Dyson: ‘If you think you could do a better job, why don’t you just stand for election?’.” Breitbart.