OUR new Chancellor, George Osborne, may not be popular, following his recent VAT rise, but he’s not as unpopular as one of his predecessors.
Chancellor Simon Sudbury introduced the poll tax for the first time in 1377. Sadly for him there was a public uprising and Sudbury was dragged from the Tower of London and beheaded.
His skull can still be viewed at the Church of St Gregory at Sudbury in Suffolk.
SIDNEY THORPE, Mortimer Drive, Old Marston, Oxford
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