According to the IFS, the UK tax take is still "considerably lower than the western European average" at 33.5%, rather than 39.9%. (View Post)

A key question is how to raise taxes on the wealthy, but in other ways keep the country attractive enough for many wealthy people to stay. Many other European countries have managed this, since the p… (View Post)

Under continual attack from a press funded by large vested financial interests, I think you're right that the government are too scared to take on some of these fundamental, hugely structurally … (View Post)

I think that jusr would result in much of Britain resembling the worst parts of the urban U.S., not the Singaporean paradise some are imagining. (View Post)

But many more benefits accrue overseas than ti the U.K. under this pattern. It's increasingly urgent for our economy that it changes. (View Post)