‘Squeezed middle’ is real and ‘global economic environment is volatile’, Fine Gael leader says
has rejected the idea that a left-wing alliance of more than one party could join a Coalition government with his party andcould agree a platform among themselves and then open negotiations with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil after the election, Mr Harris said he wanted to see a coalition of no more than three parties.“I think that wouldn’t be good at this moment in time. I think we need a stable government,” he said. “I’m currently leading and managing a three-party coalition.
But he was critical of the Social Democrats for ruling out tax cuts, saying, “That’s the equivalent of saying there will be tax rises.”. “That’s not to say I’m being pejorative or rude, it’s just genuinely being honest. We have policy differences that we won’t go in with them on, on those grounds.” Mr Harris said he had to be “truthful” with the Irish people and acknowledge that the “global economic environment in which we’re living is obviously volatile at the moment” following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.
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