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VAT TW*T SPAT

City A.M. may have coined the term TW*T for midweek workers, but The Capitalist was confronted with one of the City’s finest this month.

Celebrating the opening of Engel and Jang at the Royal Exchange, the free flowing cocktails (courtesy of the restaurant’s free negroni fountain) saw one property bigwig get into a heated debate with a City A.M. reporter. Arguing against Labour’s policy to increase VAT on independent schools, the privately-educated property developer lost his cool – calling the reporter “a f**cking tw*t”, when asked which establishment his own children attended.

Didn’t stop him from giving out his business card to the journalist in question.

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