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Oh, the suspense. It seems that we will have to wait until next week to discover the details of the £20 billion ‘black hole’ which chancellor...
The UK climate is getting ever more extreme. We know this because the BBC keeps telling us so, most recently in today’s reporting of the annual Met...
Three weeks into the new Labour government and it is already becoming clear where some of its weaknesses lie – none more so than Ed Miliband’s...
Well, that didn’t last long. Having preached to us about fiscal responsibility and ‘securonomics’, Chancellor Rachel Reeves appears to be about...
Is the retail sector ever going to recover from Covid-19? The rest of the economy seems to be purring quite nicely at the moment, with GDP up 0.7 per...
‘We cannot let the challenges of the recent past define our relationships of the future,’ declared the Prime Minister ahead of today’s meeting...
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has promised the ‘most ambitious programme of devolution this country has ever seen’, with new powers for...
Few will notice, yet this year England and Wales are almost certainly going to cross a remarkable threshold: the number of deaths will exceed the...
Don’t bother going after the Reform UK vote – the next Conservative leader should target voters lost to the Lib Dems instead. So says George...
Just Stop Oil continued its campaign by spreading orange paint over road junctions in Westminster this week, but why bother when the organisation...
Less than a week in to his government and Keir Starmer is already facing an ideological battle within the Labour party – over the nationalisation,...
What country ever went wrong with a sovereign wealth fund? It is easy to envy Singapore and Norway – the latter of which now has £1.3 trillion...
What a surprise. South Cambridgeshire District Council has declared its controversial experiment with a four day week – which put council staff on a...
On the eve of the election the then shadow minister without portfolio Nick Thomas-Symonds appeared to be getting Labour’s excuses in early. If an...
I know it has only just begun, but it is not too early to start wondering: what will it be that causes the Starmer government its first serious...
It’s a disaster, a cataclysm, a wipeout. Half the cabinet will lose their seats, and Labour will be in power for a decade. All those things will be...
I have a theory about intra-Johnson family politics. Some time in 2017 or 2018 Stanley agreed to shut up about his opposition to Brexit if Boris...
I recant. On a number of occasions I have asserted that the European Union is run by lobbyists acting on behalf of French farmers and the German car...
What is the primary purpose of a tax: to raise revenue to fund public services or as a tool to help engineer society in a way which the government...
Labour appears to be planning to make housing a big priority for its first weeks in power, which is perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it will have...
Britain’s creaking infrastructure and frequent paralysis of public services deserved to be a bigger factor in the election campaign than it has...
Members and supporters of the Conservative party do not generally speak in favour of proportional representation (PR) – which is hardly surprising...
Never mind net zero – let’s spend the money on the NHS instead. That, in an echo of the infamous promise on the side of the Vote Leave battle bus,...
Nothing excuses the behaviour of the Conservative MPs, party officials and police protection officers who took a flutter on the date of the general...
‘I’m literally in the process of getting quotes’ may well make it into the pantheon of feeble political excuses alongside ‘I did not inhale’...
Nigel Farage enjoyed a combative exchange with Nick Robinson in his BBC Panorama interview this evening, and acquitted himself well on many issues....
Today’s retail sales figures, showing that volumes increased by 2.9 per cent in May after a fall of 1.8 per cent in April, provide yet another sign...
The Conservatives are in favour of granting licences for new oil and gas extraction; Labour is against it. But what does it matter what either party...
Never mind Labour’s promise not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT – the party will soon be jacking up taxes for everyone. That sums...
Should it really be a surprise that Zia Yusuf, a Muslim entrepreneur who made his fortune setting up a company that runs an app providing concierge...
On the face of it, there could hardly be a better example of a turkey voting for Christmas than the news that Jim Ratcliffe has come out and backed...
The Conservatives love trying to reduce their estimates for the cost of a Labour government down to a neat per-household figure, which makes it easy...
Who on earth at Tory campaign HQ thought it was a good idea to send Lord Cameron into battle to attack Nigel Farage and try to head off the gathering...
Keir Starmer, it turns out, was a secret Liz Truss fan all along. Launching his party’s manifesto this morning he is going to tell us that growth...
There is something a little refreshing about the Green party. In contrast to Rishi Sunak, who has no option but to carry on pretending he has the...
Two years ago, as Chancellor, Rishi Sunak chose to jack up National Insurance contributions. It is a mark of how all over the place this government...
Ed Davey has finally taken a break from fooling around to launch some policies. But one of them, in particular, is not going to please a great number...
Is Labour really going to help get 80,000 people on the housing ladder over the next five years under its Freedom to Buy scheme, as it is claiming...
Remember all those ‘gigafactories’ that were going to decarbonise our road transport and create many thousands of green jobs into the...
There is a very big problem with Jeremy Hunt’s Family Home Tax Guarantee, though which he promises a Conservative government would not increase the...
It is small wonder that Treasury officials are unhappy about Conservative claims about Labour tax rises being attributed to them. The civil service is...
It is perhaps no accident that Rishi Sunak has rushed out his proposal for a cap on migrant workers and their dependants the day after Nigel Farage...
No wonder that Nigel Farage has decided that he would rather be leader of Reform UK than merely honorary president, and that he would like another...
In spite of his conviction for falsifying business records, Donald Trump is still expected by many to make a remarkable political comeback in...
So, we have a little more flesh on the bones of Labour’s energy policy, with the party giving more details of Great British Energy, the state-owned...
Zoe Godrich of Swansea might best be described as collateral damage in Britain’s glorious march towards net zero. Three years ago, she had her...
Black women are the worst for carbon-intensive travelling habits, according to the Guardian, citing research by the Institute for Public Policy...
The Tories’ ‘Triple Lock Plus’ is a pretty blatant attempt to secure the votes of a demographic group which is more inclined to vote...
Of course Labour’s policy of charging VAT on private school fees is all about throwing a bit of red meat to those in the party who are motivated by...
This morning’s retail sales figures are not what Rishi Sunak will have hoped for as he pitches his case for re-election on economic recovery. They...