Large sections of the green belt would be declassified
and VAT on property restorations slashed as part of a radical package of
free-market reforms set out by Jacob Rees-Mogg to urgently tackle the housing
crisis. The senior Tory, who is tipped to become Boris Johnson's Chief
Secretary to the Treasury, puts Britain's homes shortage down to
"distortive taxation" and the "most centralised planning
system" in the world. "We must urgently renew a property-owning
democracy in Britain once more," he says. Read more on the Daily Telegraph
website.
Country diary: The challenge of making a thatched roof pine-marten proof |
Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
Still, as a local told me, ‘you cannae blame them wanting somewhere to live’
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