Quote of the day

Some welcome common sense from Jackie Ashley in The Guardian on the subject of forcing the non-doms to flee to their tax-free boltholes outside the UK:

"Actually I doubt that Britain would be worse off if the Porsche dealers, £500-a-bottle restaurants and decorators of modernist palazzos had a harder time for a while. The swaggering of the super-rich has hit the morale and self-belief of more essential people, not just at the bottom of the heap, but the public-sector professionals we rely on. They used to say nothing was certain bar death and taxes. Now you know that for one self-important group, it's no longer so. If they really want to sit bored out of their skulls in a tax haven, let them."