Most radio and TV chatter focused on what wasn’t in the Budget. Nothing on social care, no extra help for me, us, them, him. What also wasn’t there was much of the stuff we were worried would be. No mention of pension tax relief, inheritance, capital gains and nasty, new wealth taxes. Instead, he was stealthy, he let off the wealthy and I won’t embarrass myself by trying to squeeze ‘healthy’ into this sentence. The ‘stealthy’, not inflation-linking various allowances, won’t creep up on us until both Boris and Rishi are long-gone. But I do think Brexit Britain will rue the corporation tax hikes.
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.