A committee of MPs with whom I agree! You may remember that we advisers only heard about the proposed sale of LV= to US private equity via the back door. A mutual company is theoretically owned by its policyholders. Their welfare is unlikely to be top of the list if the sale goes through; although they’ll no doubt be offered a healthy bribe to agree to it, if past deals are anything to go by. I predict the doors will be closed to new business, and costs cut to the bone before it’s sold on again. Just say ‘no’, guys.
“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.