“Downing Street sets out some details of new Brexit customs plan”

Jul 5, 2018 | Brexit

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

Do you have one of those new-fangled passports that supposedly let you fast track the immigration queues? Mine  seems to work every other time and like many others, I end up trooping to the back of the line to wait for a real person to check it. And most other countries’ airports don’t have the necessary fancy machines. 

So it really credible  that ‘smart technology’ can work out which bits of the cargo in the trailer which huge lorry has come from which country and where it’s going and charge the right tarrifs? Yes, I’m a self-confessed remoaner who wants to stay in the Customs Union; but is there really any other option?

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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.