When the smoking ban came in, I remember every pub and restaurant proclaiming that it would put them out of business; and many, including many an MP crying personal freedom and choice. You’d feel differently if dying, or watching a loved one dying, of a smoking-related disease. Hard now to imagine eating or drinking in a fug of smoke, as it will be, I predict, to think of being close enough to breath in a fellow diner, drinker or festival-goer’s Covid breath in years to come. Much as the expression irks, it is now, and will be for the foreseeable, the new normal.
“Reeves backs down on plans to cut ISA limit”
So it looks as though Cash ISAs are safe for the moment (FTM – is that a thing?) Rachel has apparently ‘bowed to pressure’ from the banks and building societies and decided not to reduce the allowance to £4,000 for cash and to keep the £20,000 parity with Stocks and Shares ISAs. Bowed also to common sense, I’d say.
