Politicians of both major parties have an incredible need to spend taxpayer money to stamp their name on achievements, to build, literally or figuratively, triumphal arches confirming their own prestige.
On what we would suggest George Osborne do, he said that "you have got to stop-up a whole lot of tax loopholes", for example the "glaring dodge" of very wealthy people avoiding stamp duty by owning their homes in the name of foreign companies.