With a u-turn announced last night on the Pasty Tax and the watering down of caravan taxes and secret courts, Guido thought he’d put together the comprehensive one stop guide to Coalition u-turns:
- Rape anonymity
- Selling off the forests
- Vanity photographer on the public payroll
- Scrapping school milk for under-5s
- Scrapping Bookstart
- Scrapping the Financial Inclusion Fund
- Cutting Housing Benefit for long-term jobseekers
- Immigration target policy reduced to an “ambition”
- Coastguard cuts
- Circus animals ban
- Reduction in BBC World Service cuts
- Cutting support for disabled people in care homes
- Scrapping the Office of the Chief Coroner
- Automatic prison sentences for carrying a knife
- 50% sentence reductions for an early guilty plea
- Scrapping the Youth Justice Board
- Scrapping Domestic Violence Protection Orders
- Plans to introduce unannounced Ofsted inspections
- Watering down of Child Benefit cuts
- Video games tax relief kept after all
- Scrapping NHS targets
- Joint Strike Fighter mess
- Watering down plans to recall MPs
- Rowing back on Secret Courts
- Pasty Tax scrapped
- Caravan Tax watered down