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Any other business

Stop chasing the PM’s taxes: focus on the bad stuff that really matters

Also in Any Other Business: footballers’ taxes; care homes’ wages; negative interest rates

16 April 2016

9:00 AM

16 April 2016

9:00 AM

There were moments last week when I was ready to give up journalism and retrain in a less unsavoury profession — chiropody, perhaps. It might have been Jon Snow’s bushwhacking of arts minister Ed Vaizey on the subject of the prime minister’s tax affairs, or Snow’s colleague Cathy Newman shrieking questions about offshore companies at Boris Johnson as she chased him in the street.

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