Quote Originally Posted by TWGL1 View Post
UK announces getting rid of the 45% tax rate that will cost £2.4bn next year - IMF intervenes and markets in meltdown.

UK pledges more than £2.4bn to Ukraine and no market response

Same outcome - £2.4bn cost to UK taxpayer

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/statu...NQi6VqYfUZUNjg
Seems a bit of a strawman. Most of the media coverage I have seen has been going out of their way to say that whilst the 45% announcement is political dynamite, it doesn't amount to enough money to influence anything on its own.