Sunak makes more pledges – but what happened to his last five?
In his speech in north London his morning, the Prime Minister confirmed that tax cuts are coming this Wednesday, as…
What changed Hunt’s mind on tax cuts?
Has Jeremy Hunt had a change of heart or a change of circumstances? The Chancellor has spent the past few…
Sunak meets first pledge as the rate of inflation halves
Inflation has slowed significantly, according to the latest update from the Office for National Statistics. The headline rate was 4.6 per cent…
The UK labour market is beginning to cool
Slowly but surely, the labour market in the UK appears to be cooling down. Data from the Office for National Statistics this…
The spectre of recession continues to haunt the UK economy
The UK economy grew 0.2 per cent in September. This followed 0.1 per cent growth in August, revised downwards from…
After 13 years of Tory rule, is this it?
There were no big surprises in the King’s Speech today. That’s a shame. Rishi Sunak and his ministers like to…
Has the Bank of England done enough to stave off recession?
The Bank of England has held interest rates at their 15-year high for a second time. Markets were expecting another…
What can Rishi learn from the EU’s plummeting inflation rate?
Good headlines are coming out of the Eurozone this morning, as the inflation rate slowed to 2.9 per cent in…
Rishi’s smoking ban inspired me to light a cigarette
What has Rishi Sunak’s government achieved in its first year? The highlights include a renegotiated Brexit policy and setting more…
Pressure is mounting for Jeremy Hunt to find tax cuts
Timing is a funny thing. The Chancellor received some good news about the public finances this morning, just when everyone…
Has inflation stuck?
‘As we have seen across other G7 countries, inflation rarely falls in a straight line,’ said Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this…
Say goodbye to tax cuts?
‘We are in a horrible fiscal bind’ says the Institute for Fiscal Studies this morning, as it publishes its Green Budget…
As oil prices rise, the permacrisis continues
It was a year ago this weekend that Liz Truss sacked her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, over the fallout of their…
Is the IMF right to be this pessimistic about the UK economy?
The International Monetary fund has published its biannual World Economic Outlook report – and it’s more bad news for the UK. While…
Labour’s grand plan? More borrowing
Rachel Reeves’s speech at Labour party conference was an attempt to show how the party’s economic strategy differs from the…
Is Mitt Romney behind Akshata Murthy’s appearance?
Is Akshata Murthy using the Ann Romney playbook? Rishi Sunak’s wife made an unexpected appearance on the main stage at…
Jeremy Hunt: we underestimated the impact of money-printing
Speaking at the Centre for Policy Studies fringe event at Conservative party conference this afternoon, Jeremy Hunt reiterated once again…
How do I know I’m an adult? I’m given unsolicited feedback
Adulthood was once determined by age, but now we’ve extended childhood far beyond the teenage years. If the government gets its…
Slow economic growth won’t help the Tories reduce the tax burden
The Office for National Statistics has released the UK’s quarterly national accounts this morning, which show growth in the second quarter of…
Welcome to ‘sick note Britain’
Is the country morphing into ‘sick note Britain’? According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the average…
Is Jeremy Hunt right that tax cuts are ‘virtually impossible’?
No one was expecting a big tax cut this year. Rishi Sunak’s government has been clear that 2023 is for…
Have interest rates finally peaked?
The Bank of England has voted to maintain interest rates at 5.25 per cent, rather than opt for a 15th…
Can Rishi Sunak afford a pre-election tax cut?
Will the government have room for tax cuts before an election? Politically, it’s thought to be non-negotiable that they must.…
UK set for highest inflation in G7 this year
You’d struggle to describe the start of 2023 as anything like ‘good economic times’. But according to the OECD’s economic outlook…
Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk
Was Liz Truss a fiscal hawk inside No. 10? That is the rather startling claim made by the former prime…
