For quite a few years now, if you had a £2m or more to spare, you’ve been able to buy your way into the UK just as easily as to any other tin-pot tax haven. Our erstwhile Home Secretary this week declared herself (to paraphrase Claude Rains as the corrupt policeman in ‘Casablanca’, kids etc.) ‘Shocked, shocked’ to find that some of those £ms might be the proceeds of dodgy dealings; and in particular Russian dodgy dealings. Something which has been an open secret, certainly amongst London estate agents, for years. Then on the same day, we heard of her plans to push boats full of migrants with no money back to France. Hang your head in shame, Priti.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?