The Office of National Statistics looked at the GDP of the UK the year before Brexit and surmised that the actual GDP of the country afterwards was 5% lower of £31 thousand million (31 billion for those who count like the Americans) in lost investment and growth within the economy.
The fiscal black hole Hunt is fixing in the next three years is said to be £50 thousand million (50 billion…) Paying that back over 3 years (his target not an economically necessary target) has produced a budget that has sent more people into higher tax rates than made the highest earners pay more. Since the highest tax rates are paid by the heads of banks who caused the banking crisis, and the men and women who led the Brexit project I would have liked to see them have a new tax rate of 60% on all those whose bonuses and earning are greater than £150,000 a year.
Why make anyone else pay?