I really think they’re fighting a losing battle here. There are so many who believe whatever they want to believe on the internet that it will always be a scammers paradise. Some of those were waving placards on Burford roundabout yesterday, ‘The media lies’, ‘Don’t take the vaccine’, ‘Don’t poison our children’. If adverts for unregulated investments were banned, or advisers advising on unregulated investments faced banning, that might be progress. At least then, those sticking their money into something ‘dodgy’ would only have themselves to blame. Wouldn’t they?
“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.