John Cook, Labour

Labour and Co-operative PPC (Norwich North),
John Cook's reply

"I am happy for you to treat my comments as being broadly supportive of your campaign and am supportive of its aims".

Do you agree in principle with the aforementioned policy?*
*no commitment to act upon the policy

Answer - "I support fairer and progressive tax, and am generally supportive of higher personal allowances, funded by higher taxes on high earners. I can see that your proposal would be one way of achieving this. I believe there could be some inequality issues around those earning close to £18,000 (slightly over or under), leaving someone earning £18001 worse off than someone earning £17999 for example".

In a generic sense, do you believe that the rich should pay more tax and the poor should pay less tax?

Answer – "Yes".

Do you pledge to campaign for income tax reform at the next parliament?**
**not necessarily as specified with the above policy

Answer - "Yes – In line to my answer to Question 1"