‘Too little too late': Angus Taylor on his tax policy versus Labor's
National News Network Political Editor Clare Armstrong speaks on Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor's actions on the campaign trail for the federal election.
'The delay in actually coming up with their own version of this temporary tax offset, essentially allowed Labor to cast the Liberals as being in favour of higher taxes,' Ms Clare told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
'Angus Taylor was in favour of doing something more ambitious, more along the lines of indexing tax rates for income earners.
'Mr Dutton and the people around him got cold feet.
'There clearly wasn't the staging and the thinking through of policy development.'
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