It’s become a topsy-turvey world, and we can’t blame it all on Covid. The nearest thing Labour has to a stronghold now seems to be in London and the South East. And the CBI, once the bastions of Maggie-ism, are putting forward what could be a Blair-style election manifesto: education, employee benefits, level up, invest in the future, no austerity. A grand plan, they call it. Let’s hope nettles are grasped before Boris’s wedding plans take over the No.10 agenda.
“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.