Starmer's vision quest

[Psamathe]

There will still be plenty of rental properties won’t there? After all, everyone loves a diverse portfolio.

Those rental properties need to be owned by somebody and if returns are too low ('cos costs are too high) then it's not a sensible/optimal investment. You can easily have a diverse portfolio without owning property.

 

[Pross]

I would vote for that.

Me too but they walked into the Tory trap of promising increase on the main taxes. It was complete stupidity as I think the majority of the electorate had come to accept that for things to improve it was necessary to raise more money. They may have lost a handful of the more marginal ex-Tory seats but they were always going to win a comfortable majority. They didn’t even need to say they were going to raise taxes just something along the lines of ‘we’re not ruling anything out until we’ve got a full picture of the state of the country’s finances’.