“China: Xi Jinping set to rule beyond 2023 after Communist Party proposes removal of two-term limit for president”

Feb 26, 2018 | World

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

Hmm. Well, suddenly our largest future trading partner is to (once again) become a dictatorship with an appalling human rights record, rather than a one-party state with an appalling human rights record. David Cameron’s China Investment Fund doesn’t look quite the cozy retirement project he expected it to be and the fact that China makes most of the non-food stuff we use and buy most days for most of the companies we know and love does not seem quite such a fab outsourcing idea. Plenty of other fish in the sea?

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“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

“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.