It was the night before the Budget went all through the House. Not a creature was staring, not even a mouse. Possibly the torpor is because Jeremy Hunt has suggested that although he would like to be like Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s famous Chancellor, he needs to be more prudent, like Gordon Brown. However, the opposite is true. The Chancellor needs to be, must be, like Nigel Lawson. UK’s tax system is a muddle, and it was a model that was created, devised and invented in many ways by Gordon Brown. It disincentivised growth and innovation, it’s filled with bizarre anomalies, and it is in…
