‘So what will happen now, Mystic Phil’, I hear you say. Well, Boris & Co will go on a bit of a spending spree, or at least put one in motion (more bobbies, your granny looked after, maybe even a pothole near you filled-in). A Brexit deal may or may not be done. If it is, it won’t get through Parliament, it it isn’t, No Deal won’t get through Parliament. So we’ll have a pre-Halloween election; which on current form doesn’t look promising for the increasingly useless JC. I’d say we can probs look forward to having both BoJo and Trump in charge until 2024.
“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”
Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.