It's already the most-used railway in the UK, with 220 million passenger journeys in 2023-24 - compared with the projected figure of just 200 million in 2030 that was used for the business case. Ten … (View Post)

. As far as I can see, the large business-owned farms are rather more economically important than small family-owned farms: In England how is the economic output distributed across the number of farm… (View Post)

From what I've seen, the most concrete objection from the landowners is that... they're actually much more wealthy than the treasury had thought, so more of them will be hit by the new 20% IHT rate. … (View Post)

Not according to the law, but the police don't really seem too hot on putting basic technical restrictions in place to actually enforce that. There'd be no need for Pearson to get permission, though,… (View Post)

When was the last chancellor to actually do that? I don't think Brown ever did it, so maybe Ken Clarke? Howe? Churchill, of course, pre-loaded Champagne before his budgets but proceeded to cognac dur… (View Post)