Its a strange one. Perhaps Reeves feared that Labour MPs wouldn't have accepted increasing fiscal headroom as a good enough reason for spending restraint and tax increases. (View Post)

Great sob story here: https://www.thetimes.com/money/tax/article/mansion-tax-budget-westminister-3sprzqr89 Lives alone in six bedroom Kensington home, bought for £4k in 1970 and now worth £4m. Lots o… (View Post)

At a meeting in No 10 in September of this year, one source heard a special adviser ask: “What are gilt yields?” A government whose opponents were destroyed by the bond markets, and which is paying t… (View Post)

After last year’s general election was called, one hedge fund commissioned detailed research on Labour. This is the kind of thing hedge funds do: they buy satellite images of harvests or data on frei… (View Post)

And in further 'one law for oldies and another law for you' news: Savers who attempt to swerve the chancellor’s cash Isa crackdown by exploiting a loophole in stocks and shares Isas will fa… (View Post)