Rachel Reeves is trying it on – we shouldn’t believe a thing she says
That’s what Reeves is about to do in preparing the ground for a raft of tax rises.On the stump, she...
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How another Trump White House can work to Britain’s advantage
All this could be no more than wishful thinking. Trump 2.0 may be a good deal more dangerous than my...
A fiscal storm is coming but nobody is battening down the hatches
It’s one thing for the US, a dominant and dynamic economy, to max out the credit card, but quite another...
Sir Keir Starmer is about to discover just how lucky he really is
These extra costs help explain why the tax burden has risen to record peacetime levels even as public services are...
Britain’s paltry savings are in Labour’s crosshairs
It’s one thing to limit the extent of tax relief on pension contributions, but it is quite another for the...
Whisper it, but Labour is about to inherit a rallying economy
The long hiatus in business investment seen since the vote for Brexit may finally have run its course. Years of...
The coming financial storm that governments are powerless to fight
Since the banking system went belly up in the financial crisis of 2008-10, non-bank forms of finance have ballooned, and...
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...
Unrepentant Bank of England refuses to learn from its failures
Yet if it had so little impact, why did both Switzerland and Japan, which were subjected to the same external...
The EU may have built Poland – but Brexit did not break Britain
If we instead take purchasing power parity as the measure, which attempts to adjust for the fact that the cost...
