VAT isn't included in the accounts, the £30m is all corporation tax. The difference between the tax charge and 19% of profit is deferred tax, usually the effect accounting rules being different from … (View Post)

One of the issues as you touch on is Scotland. As Kelner's states, a 13% lead for Labour would give it just three seats in Scotland on Universal National Swing. Whether that is realistic depends on t… (View Post)

Sunak was appointed by the MPs, the other two were appointed by the membership - a diminishing number of people unrepresentative of Conservative voters as a whole. (View Post)

I note that the Telegraph headline puts Nazi in quotes. That wasn't a word he used. As ever that annoys me (the Guardian do it quite often on the other side). If something is in quotes it should be a… (View Post)

These aren't mutually exclusive categories. No doubt, like others here, to me Johnson is in Box 4, but also Box 1. Brexit, and especially the form chosen, has changed the country considerably, and wi… (View Post)