it's a movable feast.round and spoken to people and come up with a much smaller number. the ft is a pro—business publication, it would wa nt to pro—business publication, it would want to create a sense of stability within particularly london as a financial centre. the figure is probably not that far from the truth. lots of people will have a white christmas, but let's move on, i'll get your numbers on that. republicans forge a tax deal at last. interesting because this time yesterday at our lead story was doug jones winning the seat in alabama, the democrat, and what that would mean for the trump administration trying to get anything through and it is significant this happened later in the day. this is the first really significant piece of legislation that the trump administration will get through, it looks like it will happen. talked about this a lot, there's been the odd concession, corporation tax only 2196, odd concession, corporation tax only 21%, it's up in the 30s, the highest in the developed world