"There have been six Governors of the Bank of England in the past 50 years and sixteen Chancellors of the Exchequer (a number boosted by the installation of a revolving door at Number 11 sometime in 2019)."

"On 30th October, a day before Halloween, the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the inaugural Budget of the new government. Buyers and sellers in the prime market waited with bated breath to see whether it would be a case of trick or treat."

"We had just under 1,000 responses to our latest client survey. It suggested that buyer sentiment had softened slightly compared to earlier this year, in the wake of the general election and the immediate aftermath of the Budget. "