Is Rishi ditching a tax that would make him and his mates richer?
Rishi Sunak and his lectern are promising 'long term decisions for a brighter future'. But just whose future is getting brighter?
Plans for HS2 are in chaos after rumours the PM might be about to ditch the wildly over-budget rail project. He's called environmental policies heavy handed - and ditched some of those targets. And now his ministers are starting to suggest that inheritance tax could be 'deeply punitive'. Will that be axed too?
And we discuss the outlier poll for ABC news which gives Trump a 10 point lead over Biden in a presidential election.
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