Steph McGovern

So they're saying they want to create a powerful department of the prime minister.

I mean...

It does read a bit like satire, this as well, to drive national priorities.

They want to stop making local councils bid for small grant pots and instead give mayors in England real tax and regional spending.

Again, we've heard readers talk about that.

Yeah, they also, just to briefly mention as well, a hard line on services saying they think that you should let failing debt-loaded utility monopolies like Thames Water face the consequences if they're failing them out.

Yeah.

So, right.

So that's potentially street in.

Who do you want to do next?

Burnham or Rayner?

Yes, and you can't keep hammering the people who are, as we've talked about a million times, about how it's a tiny proportion of people who are paying the biggest income tax, the richest, isn't it?

They are the ones who are paying the most in tax.

And if you keep hitting them, they're going to change their behaviour.

They're going to leave.

They're going to do things differently.

And also a lot of them are employers and things like that as well.

So you can't... It's so...

It makes so much common sense to just grow the economy and that will increase tax revenues.

It's just the real basics of economics.