IT HASN’T taken long for the Tories to rob the poorest and give money to the richest. The promised £12bn of cuts to children, the unemployed and the disabled are a disgrace. What is worse they are unnecessary.

This Government, committed to shrinking the public sector even more, can still find handouts for the very wealthy. Death duties are to be scrapped for anyone with a house worth £1m or more, at a cost to the rest of us taxpayers of £1bn.

What could be more natural when a rich person dies that a proportion of their money should be paid back to the society which has supported them? Inheriting money is one of the biggest causes of inequality in Britain today.

David Cameron says his Conservatives will govern as a party of one nation. The truth is the Tories will, as always, govern for the well-off and only the well-off.

Cllr JOHN TANNER (Labour)
City Councillor for Littlemore & County Councillor for Isis
Sunningwell Road, Oxford