Why did we do this? Why at no point did someone in Labour or the Conservatives, think this was a bad idea?

The last thing your pension relief sees before it gets cut by something called 'the quintile distribution impact assessment".

Broken Social Contract

This is our current position, which is already locking out the 39% of 25 year olds who live with parents. That number can go higher.

Have been thinking (further) about this overnight. Bearing in mind issues with rental supply. The least harmful way to do this, is probably partially merging NI and Income Tax. Knock a point or two off NI with a corresponding increase in Income tax.

More good analysis on the shambles that is the taxing of rental income. Counterproductive complexity introduced by everyone's least favourite chancellor George Osbourne.

And yet if you broke planning law to build your own house, in a housing crisis, you'd be told to knock it down. Planning law is sacrosanct til it's not...