This is a massively dumb way to fund things. Just fund local government properly through fiscal devolution, council tax reform, and social care reform. Oh, wait, you ducked all of those again....

Would be interesting to know the pay ratio between those bosses and their minimum wage staff.

Top right. But they're all gorgeous.

I think that shipped sailed when Johnson expunged a lot of the One Nation lot. And as for messaging it has to counter the follow-up 'we'll train our own &/or wages will rise' lines that were used during the Brexit campaign.

This is my approach to mashed potato. Counteract butter with a good glug of olive oil.