the limit

Although she lands on the side of the comfortable, most of her wealth seems to be in land on which taxes keep rising to the limit of what she can afford.

“Too many comedians are afraid to say that or let that be the goal. We have to be honest about what we’re trying to do. If you just want to be a comedian to get a couple dollars and get some attention that’s one thing, but I see it as a thing where the sky is the limit.”

Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the influential Treasury select committee, said ending the limit was not only the right thing to do morally, it also made economic sense in the long term.

Reform UK has also pledged to scrap the limit if it wins power, although the Conservatives have said getting rid of it is not "economically credible".

The Daera consultation on whether to introduce fixed penalty notices is also asking people whether or not the maximum fines should be increased to £50,000 in magistrates' courts and whether the limit should be removed entirely in Crown courts.