Surprised about taxing unearned income though - I wonder if this is more to do with interest than dividends/property income. Brits love savings accounts and the cut to the Cash ISA limit is very unpopular. (Does the Treasury have a strategy beyond this to funnel savings into the FTSE?)

Also I wonder what the split would be on the mansion tax if the threshold stayed at the £1.5m they were briefing previously. Good to see it's popular in principle though

Turns out I still have it on Spotify - Toxic, Got Your Money, Runaway, Gimme Shelter, Billie Jean, Super Freak some of the highlights

I noticed disability benefit spend was due to rise by more than 50% - £41bn to £65bn. Do you know what's behind that, ageing?

We carved out an "inappropriate hour" of songs towards the end of our reception as an excuse to play bangers with anti-wedding vibes. Can't remember if we had any Mac though

Just a reminder that 59% of landlords don't have a mortgage so won't feel pressure to pass on higher tax to their tenants, which in turn makes it difficult for mortgaged landlords to do the same (especially as the latter are typically charging as much as they can already).

Fair enough!

I can believe a lot of Band D+ homes in WF are worth that much

On the other hand, lots of Band Hs in Hexham but presumably only a small number would break £2m
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Interesting your view on landlord NI - sounded like they're really keen on that one

Do you do much polling of trade offs?

This is the street votes model that Gove legislated for - very much untested but you never know what'll happen when suddenly a row of neighbours collectively realise they're sitting on a gold mine

Is it just me or is this basically the way the USA was treating Hamas in negotiations a couple of months ago?

Honestly whenever I feel lethargic, anxious or just a bit meh, 99% of the time I just need a big glass of water