“Social Democrat Centrists” would probably cover a lot of people who were, for instance, quite happy to vote for Cameron’s Tories but might not vote for Badenoch. (View Post)

I believe that the government’s original intention was that people like Rayner should not have been subject to this charge, and the fact that she is subject to it was due to an oversight in legal dra… (View Post)

HMRC has a “politically exposed persons” list of people who get special treatment: https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/economic-crime-supervision-handbook/ecsh33316 Government ministers will def… (View Post)

Unless there’s not enough in the estate to pay the IHT in which case HMRC can & will come after the recipient. (View Post)

HS2 isn’t that much more expensive for being designed for 350km/h instead of 300km/h. What made HS2 ridiculously expensive was 1) burying more than half the line between London and Birmingham and 2) … (View Post)