How to grow an economy
For the next four weeks Rachel Reeves, like the rest of us, will be stuck in the hellscape of fiscal...
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Labour risks breaking debt rule with net zero borrowing binge
Calculations by the IFS suggest Labour’s plan will mean debt rises from just under 92pc of gross domestic product (GDP)...
Britain’s fickle bond markets will be a key election battleground
Historical analysis shows that when the GfK measure of consumer confidence is above -15, the incumbent government has a decent...
There’s a crushing consensus that Britain’s economic stagnation is now inevitable
If Britain gets lucky, it will achieve around 2pc growth – better than nothing, but still woeful compared to what’s...
Labour’s new business backers should be careful what they wish for
Similar shortsightedness has instructed the taxation of North Sea oil and gas, where what began as a windfall tax has...
Britain’s reality check threatens to be nasty, brutish and far from short
Instead, both Conservatives and Labour hug a suffocating consensus on tax and spend that substantially ignores the deep structural reforms...
Labour wants you to think the Tories caused the mortgage crisis – don’t believe a word
The short-term effects of the announcement were acute. But the Truss mini-Budget should be understood as a “miscalculation” that sped...
Neither party has a plan to escape stagnation, and neither has my vote
Economic growth smashed consensus by coming in at 0.6pc in the first quarter. The early evidence is that April and...
Economic growth slows as Britain heads towards election
Adding to the positive sentiment, S&P Global’s flash UK PMI also showed the manufacturing sector enjoyed its fastest growth in...
Barclays increases mortgages after election call – but others cut rates
Mr Sunak said that the fall in the Office of National Statistics headline rate meant the Tories’ “plan is working”. Barclays...
