Were you outraged to learn that the cost of funding the Royal Family has gone up to over £130 million a year?

Apparently many people were. They shouldn’t have been. The Royal Family try harder than any other British institution to support the British Union. The King spends his holidays in Scotland, Keir Starmer does not. Princess Anne would know exactly where Lanark was, Kemi Badenoch would probably think it was somewhere east of Blackpool.

Leave aside what you think of the social merits of the Royal Family and look at the economics. £130 million is a lot of money, about half a CalMac ferry in fact. That money would be better spent on the health service etc etc say the detractors.

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The reality is that if we didn’t have a Royal Family then in purely financial terms we should invent one. Looked as a business the Royal Family is a market leading and highly profitable British product, with large export earnings and no effective competition.

The Royal Family doesn't cost us a penny; it is hugely profitable for Britain and contributes to our national income many times more than it costs.

Take non-doms as another example. People from elsewhere who live in this country but........

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