9th April 1941:

The budget has almost knocked the Balkan campaign out of the news. It is the former and not the latter that I overhear people everywhere discussing. [1]

[1] The budget raised the basic rate of income tax to ten shillings in the pound (50%). Peter Davison

From the Orwell Diaries.

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