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Tory former business secretary Dame Andrea Leadsom yesterday became the latest senior politician to urge the Chancellor to look again at the hated tourist tax.
Joining the growing clamour to bring back tax-free shopping for overseas tourists, the former Cabinet minister said ministers should ‘very carefully assess’ the impact of its removal.
Dame Andrea said she was sympathetic to businesses calling on the Government to scrap the tourist tax.
Her South Northamptonshire constituency is ‘just down the road’ from the designer shopping outlet Bicester Village, which has been demanding the return of tax-free shopping.
Dame Andrea told Sky News’ Kay Burley yesterday: ‘It’s a huge, incredible tourist attraction which does a massive amount of business, and they have certainly lobbied me about this issue with VAT.
Bicester Village is among scores of businesses which have signed a letter to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt demanding he scraps the hated tax to boost the economy
Liz Truss sought to reintroduce the VAT rebate during her short tenure in No10, but Mr Hunt reversed the decision last autumn
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