'We're seeing fewer high-spending tourists in our stores. It's been a massive own-goal'

How Sunak's Tax Free shopping ban is damaging business recovery in Edinburgh

Diamonds are forever - but the high-spending visitors who buy them are not. And the UK Government’s refusal to listen to the warnings of hundreds of business leaders could prove very expensive for Edinburgh’s retail and tourism sector – at a time when it already feels under more than one cosh.