Sentence examples for support a mansion from inspiring English sources

Labour will only support a mansion tax that is fair to those who are asset-rich but cash-poor".

Lib Dems miss no opportunity to remind voters that, unlike their Conservative colleagues, they support a "mansion tax" on expensive homes.

Look at the Sunday Times YouGov poll: 62% say taxes on the wealthiest should be increased, while 66% support a mansion tax on property worth more than £2m.

"Labour will only support a mansion tax that is fair to those who are asset rich but cash poor," he said.

The shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury has said Labour would support a mansion tax and use the money to "support families earning modest and middle incomes".

The move to impose higher taxes on second homes - set out as part of preparations for the 2015 general election manifesto - emerged after Labour pledged to support a mansion tax to fund a return of the 10p starting rate of tax, scrapped by Gordon Brown in 2008.

David Laws, the education minister, has signalled that the Lib Dems will not vote for the Labour motion supporting a mansion tax.

He has never been a perfect team player: his sudden support for a "mansion tax" on expensive properties at last year's conference alienated party colleagues.Perhaps the biggest lesson from the furore is that the Lib Dems are still learning the ropes of government.

"I was offered the moon in terms of money and support - a mansion to live in and a lab of my own design," he says of one particular offer made to him by an unnamed Arab country.

He said the wealthy could contribute more in tax in future, and re-iterated his party's support for a "mansion" tax on properties worth more than £2m, but he said his party had ruled out raising the top rate of tax.

They claim to support a UK-wide mansion tax at the same time as committing to cutting Scotland off from UK-wide taxes".