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Michael SimmonsThe Spectator |
Welcome to kite-flying season. With exactly two months to go until Andy Burnham and John Healey’s first Budget, we’re beginning to get a shape of...
When I heard that a civil service insider had made bullying allegations against Scotland’s deputy first minister, Jenny Gilruth, I was not...
There’s good and bad news in the public finance figures, released by the Office for National Statistics this morning. July saw something of a...
This week, Andy Burnham, in an article about how much he loves buses, declared that he will lead a ‘cost of living government’. Yet costs are...
Is the Burnham bounce about to fizzle out? This morning has seen the first shaky set of economic figures since his ascension to Mayor of Great...
It’s reassuring to know the government has the ability to live-tweet the slow decline of Britain. We won’t go out with a whimper: we’ll crash...
Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his Chancellor John Healey are not having a bad start. Sure, there’s trouble ahead: the Budget is going to be...
Our supermarkets are showing remarkable restraint. The previous Chancellor and now the new one can’t resist slandering them. In...
Our supermarkets are showing remarkable restraint. The previous Chancellor and now the new one can’t resist slandering them. In...
One of the first magazine cover pieces I wrote as economics editor was: ‘Go – Why the Rich Are Fleeing Britain’. It claimed that changes to the...
Energy prices have been on the rise again in recent weeks and fears of another inflationary shock are, again, on economists’ lips. For now, though,...
If John Healey wants to succeed as Chancellor, he needs to get a grip on the Office for National Statistics (ONS). I’ve written about the troubles...
‘I’m done with Trump,’ fumed a normally MAGA-supportive retail trader as he watched an investment that was particularly Hormuz-sensitive...
If John Healey wants to succeed as Chancellor, he needs to get a grip on the Office for National Statistics (ONS). I’ve written about the troubles...
Figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show inflation fell to 2.6 per cent in June – down from the 2.8 per cent...
John Healey has been hit with a triple whammy on his first full day as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just...
Andy Burnham’s government could be entertaining to watch but disastrous for the country. Reports suggest that one of the options Burnham could...
Britain is crippled. More of us than ever before are disabled. One in four, at the last count. But it is a statistic so obviously at odds with reality...
Britain is crippled. More of us than ever before are disabled. One in four, at the last count. But it is a statistic so obviously at odds with reality...
Rachel Reeves last night made what is surely her final Mansion House speech to the business bigwigs, obscure liverymen and bankers of the City of...
If I were Andy Burnham, I’d be terrified about the inheritance Keir Starmer has left. Yet instead of stepping gingerly towards Downing Street,...
If I were Andy Burnham, I’d be terrified about the inheritance Keir Starmer has left. Yet instead of stepping gingerly towards Downing Street,...
If I were Andy Burnham, I’d be terrified about the inheritance Keir Starmer has left. Yet instead of stepping gingerly towards Downing Street,...
Andy Burnham has catapulted his way back to Westminster in a landslide victory, winning 55 per cent of the vote in Makerfield. The scale of that...
Unsurprisingly, the Bank of England has voted to keep interest rates at 3.75 per cent. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which decides...
This week has been described by some as Keir Starmer’s ‘legacy week’. The ban on social media and the G7 summit in Evian were meant to show what...
The Chancellor will be breathing a sigh of relief this morning as inflation holds steady. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics...
One of the things wrong with Britain is our inability to say no to campaign groups once they win a hearing on the One Show. One rare exception to that...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
The final tranche of the Mandelson files was released this afternoon – though no thanks to Lord Mandelson. A Cabinet Office note released alongside...
‘It is hard not to be pessimistic when you examine the data,’ former health secretary Alan Milburn says in the foreword to his report into young...
Having said she would make no further comment on the imprisonment of her husband, Nicola Sturgeon’s lawyer has issued two further statements on her...
Reprieve! The British consumer has received a stay of execution. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show inflation last...
When Labour MPs eventually hoof Keir Starmer out of office, the Prime Minister and his neighbour in No. 11 will surely come to be remembered for one...
‘Politics needs to change,’ Andy Burnham, our presumptive next prime minister, told the ‘Great North Summit’ in Leeds this afternoon. Burnham...
This may be barely concealed trauma from my time as a Scottish civil servant but, when I look at Andy Burnham, I see Nicola Sturgeon. The cultivated...
Reality Check verdict: false You know things are hotting up in Westminster when reporters start unironically using the word ‘febrile’. Today,...
In a relief for mortgage holders, anyone with a job and the government, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted 8–1 to...
Rachel Reeves may have lost the plot. The Guardian reports that the Chancellor is considering a one-year rent freeze on private-sector flats and...
The Iran war is being felt in Britain’s economy. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show inflation rose to 3.3 per...
On the face of it, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have just released great news on unemployment. The rate – against all expectations –...
It must be bittersweet being Rachel Reeves. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy grew by 0.5 per cent in...
Rachel Reeves lands in Washington tonight to be greeted with bad news. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) – whose spring meeting the Chancellor...
Plastered around Westminster this Easter were adverts for the Tower of London. ‘The perfect place for troublemakers – pre-book now,’ the poster...
This week Rachel Reeves ruled out a blanket energy bailout to manage the fallout from the Iran war. That’s the right approach. But her targeting of...
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