The operators of the many local businesses, hotels and petrol stations to whom I have spoken in recent weeks will make their minds up from today’s debate and the votes at 5 o’clock.I agreed with what Mr Brownlee said in Parliament last year, when he asked the cabinet secretary:“On the vexed issue of transitional relief for business rates, will he ensure that whatever his decision, he will minimise the distortion in the business community?”—Official Report, 26...