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On the final day of Davos European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde talked up the benefits of Trump’s election for the sluggish EU bloc. There are few…
Lagarde refused at a panel appeareance to mention Trump but said the bloc could take angry Trump-haters:
“We need to keep the talent at home. We need to keep the savings at home. Maybe it is also time to import a few of the talents that would be disenchanted, for one reason or the other, from another side of the sea.”
Most influential Democrats are non-fussed and staying in New York anyway. At the same time Lagarde admitted executives are “not very upbeat” about future growth this side of the pond and said the EU leaders needed to “actually get their act together.” Might not be a good idea to rely on upset Democrats for an entire continent’s growth…
Good news for Farage and Reform heading into the weekend—FindOutNow has them leading on 26%. Bad news for LOTO, as the Tories slump to 23%, and even worse for Labour, scraping into third on 22%. Reform leading for the first time in a national opinion poll…

FindOutNow asked 2,380 adults how likely they would vote if there were a general election tomorrow, they “then ask those who say ‘definitely’ or ‘very likely’ what their vote choice would be” – a methodology other pollsters sneer at. Nigel took to X to say “this is just the beginning”. That sound you can hear is teeth grinding in CCHQ…
The Taxpayers’ Alliance has just dropped a poll showing that Brits are “unanimously” against inheritance tax, with 55% of Brits in favour of slashing (27%) or scrapping (28%) IHT altogether. That’s across both genders, all age groups, social grades, and political affiliations. Nearly half, 46%, labelled it the “least fair” tax. The TPA have now launched a new campaign to abolish IHT “once and for all”, with Elliot Keck saying:
“The British public clearly recognise that inheritance tax is an almost uniquely bad tax, given their unanimous support for cutting or abolishing it altogether. Our political leaders now need to listen to the electorate that put them in office and scrap inheritance tax once and for all.”
Meanwhile, Reeves is ploughing ahead with plans to impose IHT on inherited pensions – something experts have slammed as a “slow-motion car crash” – and slap the 40% tax on farms and businesses worth over £1 million, which supermarkets have warned will risk the UK’s food security. Co-conspirators can support the campaign to abolish the death tax here…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”