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His blueprint – should he become leader – would include:
Saving Britain’s local post offices by keeping government subsidies going and making them more ‘entrepreneurial’;
Abolishing ‘offensive’ hospital parking charges;
Taking on firms such as Amazon in a bid to save the high streets;
Stripping honours from people like Sir Philip Green;
Improving sluggish broadband speeds for rural areas.
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‘I want to do something very radical on business rates. I think it is grossly unfair that Amazon is not on a level playing field with our local shops and we’ve got to solve that. They are making a colossal amount of money in this country, they are paying very little tax compared with their underlying profits and they are not paying business rates basically,’ he said.
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He said: ‘If you are looking for one thing that can transform the GDP of rural areas almost overnight, it is super-fast broadband.
‘If you are looking for one thing that can transform healthcare for people living in remote areas, it is super-fast broadband.’ Mr Stewart said that as a backbencher he led the first big debate on transforming rural mobile coverage.
He added: ‘I pushed Cumbria to become one of the first four pilots on rural broadband.
‘I worked so closely with community broadband networks, with British Telecom to try to revolutionise that.
‘And I am so frustrated that nine years on we aren’t there. It is an absolute no-brainer.’
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