“Santander to shut 140 branches”

Jan 24, 2019 | High Street

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

Regular readers will remember my quest to buy a jacket in several high street stores, which eventually led me to resort to an online purchase. No doubt I’ll be a statistic quoted by Mr Sports Direct as a reason for closing more of the stores he’s picked up at rock bottom price. If you’ve been to one of the remaining branches of your bank-of-choice and seen the queue for the one remaining cashier, you’ve also probably given up and hit the internet. And so they’ll tell you it’s your fault when they close yet another branch.

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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.