[ianch99]

Rather than cover old ground again, let's look forward: what can the country do to reclaim some of the previous prosperity and improve public services/infrastructure. I have suggested that the Single Market would be, by far, the biggest beneficial change. What else can make a positive and significant difference?

I think the Budget had a lot of positives but also some amateurish mistakes. I have said that Starmer has little or no imagination and I guess we can see some of this here. The application of IHT of Farming estates was handled badly. They should have put some caveats to allow the small Farmers to be passed on to relatives as long as they continue the business plus a value threshold to differentiate these types of Farms from the larger agri-businesses.