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Mind your language

What has ‘deadweight’ got to do with Rishi Sunak’s magic money tree?

18 July 2020

9:00 AM

18 July 2020

9:00 AM

I was trying to understand what they meant on the wireless by deadweight costs. These were something to do with the magic money that Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, was throwing out from his tree. Then my eye was caught by my husband dozing over his newspaper where a little patch of whiskyish dribble had spread over the business pages, and I felt enlightenment.

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