Great Sums of Money
Ferdinand Mount: Swingeing Taxes, 21 October 2021
The Dreadful Monster and Its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021
by Julian Hoppit.
Allen Lane, 324 pp., £25, May,978 0 241 43442 0 Show More
by Julian Hoppit.
Allen Lane, 324 pp., £25, May,
“... But they were heard by men trained to understand nothing but the absolute sovereignty of the king-in-Parliament, and for whom ideas of federation or devolution, let alone self-government, were delusory or actively pernicious.Two centuries later, the Kilbrandon Report of 1973 shied away from any sort of federal solution, on the grounds that it worked ... ”