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Obviously damaging, as it has been to most retailers outside London, but I don't think this was a major factor in BHS's downfall.

Even after the revaluation we still have a rates system that is unfit for purpose, with the concessions granted in this year's budget that won't come into force until next year.

The revaluation delay was a scandal and it still amazes me that the government was allowed to get away with it. It was an act of bad faith that kicked many businesses in the teeth.

Not something you'd expect a business focussed government to be doing, although wasn't Philip Green advising them at the time? Maybe he should have had a word in Osborne's shell-like over the post lunch brandies. You missed a trick there Phil.