Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Only the Tories can meet the aspirations of Ikea’s hard-working families

Plus: the homesick non-doms of HSBC; and some ways to reform inheritance tax

(Photo: Stephen Chernin/Getty) 
issue 02 May 2015
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If Ikea were a constituency, it would be a three-way marginal. That was my thought one morning last week as I walked a mile and a half round the Batley branch of the great Swedish retailer behind two keen shoppers (one wearing a pedometer) whom I had driven there as a birthday treat.

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