Welcome to another exciting edition of Plank of the Week. Here we are at the world headquarters of Plankery, which is of course in the news building here in London, right near London Bridge.

I am joined today by two stalwarts of Plankery, a man who's done this many times. Russell Quirk, we call you, I guess, property consultant these days, don't me? And a PR guru to the stars and all sorts of things like that.

And Esther Cracker is back as well, who I've just been told,

had the highest level ratings of all time the last time you were here.

So we're hoping for another popular one.

Of course, what you need to do is sign up to our YouTube channel

where we do all sorts of other great stuff as well,

the ever-growing Talt Radio TV and we're going to be doing much more of that. There's been an awful lot

of plankery this week, isn't there? I mean, from the Lib Dems to the Labour Party to the

royal family to, I don't know where to begin really. Why don't you kick us off, Russell?

I kick off with the first one. Okay, well, I say this with regret, Mike, can I say?

Because I know he's a kind of, he's almost become a bit of a, I don't know it's an overused phrase, but a national treasure.

Yeah.

Rishi Sunak, the Conservative Chancellor, or some might ask themselves currently, is he?

Controversial that, because he's everybody's everybody's favourite touring. Well, he's certainly one of the most favoured politicians, I think, of recent times.

And understandably so.

He's dished out lots of money to businesses and employees and so on and so forth insofar as

the whole COVID epidemic and the crisis that's surrounded that.

But what you may have seen over the weekend is, of course, the rumours from inside Whitehall that he's about to go on a tax attack, and particularly insofar as attacking the wealthy.

So the plan is, as it's been leaked, that he intends to increase corporation tax from 19% to 24%.

He is an outrageous hike of actually more than 25%.

Well, it's huge.

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