By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll get my prediction in now – and it’s not a good one for our industry.
The pandemic spending, the cost of Brexit, rising fuel costs for government as well as citizens – they all have to be paid for. And that’s before the Levelling Up infrastructure.
So the mood music right now is one of increasing taxes, with both the Conservatives and Labour on the same side, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
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