“Think Boris Johnson is toxic to voters? Don’t be so sure”

Oct 2, 2019 | United Kingdom

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

Surely it can’t get any worse for Boris? His core supporters in the golf clubs of the Shires must surely be outraged by the whiffy stink of scandal upon scandal. Sorry, but no. The lesson from across The Pond is that, if he’s on message in every other way and the opposition is equally loathed, it matters not. Plenty of female voters who disapproved of both Clinton and Trumps’, how shall we put it, dilettantism, voted for them anyway. No wonder Trump said “Boris is going nowhere’. 

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“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.