“Covid-19: English lockdown may last beyond 2 Dec, says Gove”

Nov 2, 2020 | In the news

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

My few nights away from a comparatively well-behaved Cotswolds shows why we’re into another lockdown and why it’s unlikely be enough. Maskless blokes in trackies and baseball hats, daring anyone to confront them in motorway service stations. Crowds of students and drunken locals thronging police-free streets on Halloween Saturday. The poshest of local restaurants booked to last-chance capacity within an hour of the Boris pronouncement. The Common Sense of the Great British People. 

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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.