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Lots (and lots) to digest in the Sunday papers today. But for me the most striking is @Jeremy_Hunt's pledge on corporation tax - he would slash to 12.5%, matching Ireland's, to make UK most attractive place in world to do business thetimes.co.uk/article/hunt-a… (1/?)
We already knew that others were pro-tax-cutting - @BorisJohnson spoke eloquently at @JCBmachines about how cutting taxes can spur growth. @DominicRaab today repeats his welcome pledge to raise NI threshold to match income tax (@CPSThinkTank's 'Universal Working Income')
But it's becoming clear that the top tier of candidates are coalescing around a vision for Britain as dynamic, entrepreneurial, best place in world to do business - as the only real way to prosper post Brexit
Which is a definite break from the past two years in which Tories have been so afraid of being seen as pro-fat cats that they've often spoken more about what business does wrong than what it does brilliantly - create the jobs and growth and revenues that pay for public services
The end result of this was @YouGov polling for our 'Think Small' report, which found voters believe - by a margin of 60% to 14%! - that Tories are not on the side of small businesses (and similar figures in our separate polling of small business owners/managers)
So this shift is v v welcome, and the Tories can't let Labour shove them off this ground. Not least because this vision is not just the right one but - as @ComRes polling has shown - hugely popular with voters of all stripes 
From our own work at @CPSThinkTank, I'd urge the candidates to look at 'Think Small', with its plans for radical tax simplification for small businesses - launched by @sajidjavid, another leading contender who completely gets this agenda cps.org.uk/files/reports/…
Also many of the ideas in our 'Budget for No Deal' paper, which would generally be pretty good ideas anyway (especially the reforms we suggest around capital expensing) cps.org.uk/research/a-bud…
Could also suggest Rishi Sunak's ideas on retail bonds (cps.org.uk/research/a-new…), our paper with @Deliveroo on helping tech start-ups (cps.org.uk/research/herdi…)...
Essentially the only way we can pay for the public services long-term, and build a more prosperous society, is by doing all we can to yank up the growth rate. Whoever wins the leadership race, it's hugely encouraging that this is the ground they're fighting over.
PS I know she's not standing but this is a major theme of @trussliz's interview with @edwardmalnick today, and rightly so telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
