I had a good friend who worked as a baggage handler at Heathrow. He and his astute wife wanted to be sure of some money in retirement, so some decades back they took what little money they had and invested in a one-bedroomed flat and paid the mortgage with the rent. There was very little left over once the rent was paid, but after 25 years they owned the place. They had done it. Assured their future. Recently my friend died and that meant his widow is now unexpectedly the landlord. That makes her, in Starmer’s nasty world, not ‘’working people’’ and therefore, as he made clear today, she will …
