McCarthy & Stone boss: Stamp duty cuts would get the economy moving again

It wasn’t the 18th birthday celebration that either imagined, but when John Tonkiss took his daughter to a drive-through McDonald’s for her big day in mid-June, it marked a sliver of normality after the height of the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s strange how much you can look forward to something like that,” says Tonkiss, flashing a Ronald McDonald-worthy grin over Zoom. As chief executive of McCarthy & Stone, the UK’s leading retirement housing developer, h