And, in a warning shot to ministers signalling the experienced scrutineer is back, she has some last-minute amendments to their spending plans ready to be lodged next week – just days before Members are due to debate the Council of Ministers’ proposals to cut millions of pounds from public spending and introduce new taxes and charges.
Speaking to the JEP on Wednesday night, she vowed to fight new stealth taxes until a thorough tax review had been carried out – throughout her campaign, she called for the controversial zero-ten corporate tax regime, which sees non-finance companies pay nothing leading to the tax burden falling more and more on middle earners, to be overhauled.
On a night of exceptionally low voter turnouts – just 14 per cent in St Helier – the former St Brelade Deputy topped the poll in nine of the 12 parishes to win the by-election that had been triggered after former Senator Zoe Cameron resigned from office.
Full coverage in Thursday’s JEP.
