Spencer Gardner: A tourist tax is the wrong destination for devolution and no victory for local government

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Spencer Gardner: A tourist tax is the wrong destination for devolution and no victory for local government

The tourist tax may be sold as little more than the price of a postcard. But it represents something much bigger: the normalisation of new local taxes under the banner of devolution. That should not be the destination for Conservatives. Devolution was supposed to bring power closer to people, not taxes. The post Spencer Gardner: A tourist tax is the wrong destination for devolution and no victory for local government…