Finance

Sinn Féin will increase taxes on banks and top earners, Pearse Doherty told London investors

In a private briefing at a London hotel, the Sinn Féin finance spokesman met with investors to discuss the party’s fiscal policies

Pearse Doherty met with City investors in London last week. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Sinn Féin will expand the size of the state and target changes for top earners and Irish banks if it forms part of the next government, Pearse Doherty told investors in the City of London at a meeting last week.

The party's finance spokesperson was in the British capital on Friday last week for a meeting with around 50 global institutional investors, facilitated by Davy stockbrokers.

In a briefing note sent by Davy to its institutional clients, which has been seen by the Business Post, the stockbroker said the party's economic policies are dubbed closer to Tony Blair's “New Labour than Corbyn Labour”.