However persuading the public to celebrate wealth creation is more of a challenge.
“I think a lot of the criticisms are based on a fundamental misconception – that the company was set up to avoid tax.”
The Prime Minister appears to have done nothing wrong, though he has mishandled the Blairmore Holdings allegations. Here’s how Downing Street could do better.
The Panama leak is a boost for tax puritans – and for people like John McDonnell, who are even worse.
If there were a simple way for the exchequers of the world to get their hands on more money, you can be sure they’d have tried it by now.
The New National Living Wage comes into effect today. And over the next seven days, we will deliver tax cuts, help for savers and the single-tier state pension.
The Budget ducked the hard choices that need to be made.
When more than 30 million of us regularly drink wine, why does the pub – not the wine bar – continue to represent political expediency?
The notion of long years of post-career idleness is an artefact of a clumsy system. We are living and active for longer, and provision for our dotage must adapt.
One of my constituents asked me: what’s the point of having MPs if they can’t make this sort of decision? He was right.
Especially so for smaller firms and entrepreneurs.
Cutting duty on wines and spirits has boosted revenue. So why shouldn’t the Chancellor serve up more reductions in next week’s Budget.
Last week’s financial agreement shows Scottish politics now has precious little to do with Labour at all.
Self-governing democracies are entitled to choose their own tax rates.