Andy Burnham’s tourist tax will discourage tourists more effectively than Basil Fawlty…. and strivers have had enough

MAGGIE THATCHER warned us about the dangers of tax-and-spend governments half a century ago. Three years before becoming PM, she famously quipped: “The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money.” It was a line designed to provoke. But today it sounds less like a political punchline and more like a...