One of the last things that I expected to be writing about in this issue was a Budget! I thought that I had seen the back of Government tinkering until the Autumn. Silly me. If I had been thinking rationally, instead of having a head full of Summer thoughts, I should have known that the Chancellor – having found himself in the first Conservative majority government since 1997 – would grab an early opportunity of doing a little of the good cop, bad cop routine (albeit, as a single-hander). The Government, in this respect, like the Lord, ‘both giveth and taketh away’. Continue reading Budget Give and Takeaway →