THE chancellor has admitted she needs to raise taxes, and the electorate is fine with it as long as it only hits other people. Who would you target for revenue? 

Hannah Tomlinson, librarian: “Influencers. Hit them at source: ring lights, cosmetic tweakments, holidays in Dubai. Then again they are ideally placed to foment revolution.”

Norman Steele, ceramic artist: “Why should British people always pay the price? Why can’t we tax foreigners? Five per cent of their income should do it, there’s loads of them.”

Joe Turner, landscape gardener: “How about if you could lose the national lottery as well as winning it? Get six wrong numbers and the state takes everything. Raise the stakes.”

Wayne Hayes, roustabout: “What she should do is legalise cannabis and tax that, but it’ll never happen while she’s got that haircut.”

Carolyn Ryan, hygiene inspector: “Maybe corporations who evade billions in taxes by loaning their profits to each other via offshore subsidiaries which fold and let them claim 100 per cent of it as a write-off. Or is that too much like hard work?”