
The £7 Trillion game of property Craps
Benjamin Franklin once famously penned, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” and probably no more fitting at the present time during a pandemic where everyone faces one or the other by the time this is all over. Death or higher taxes that is. The Chancellor would have spent much of the last nine months laying awake at night considering how he was going to fill the current £300bn hole that has appeared in the public finances, and significan