Jeremy Hunt has difficult decisions ahead of him on tax cuts
The Tory party’s plan to further cut taxes in the Spring Budget is not exactly a secret. Still, Jeremy Hunt’s…
Javier Milei shocks Davos
Each year the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland, draws the attention of conspiracy theorists. In truth, nothing is…
Javier Milei dismantles the Davos groupthink
Each year the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland draws the attention of conspiracy theorists. In truth, nothing is…
Trump’s hold on Republican voters is as strong as ever
The Iowa contest tends not to select the Republican nominee. In 2016 Texas Senator Ted Cruz denied Donald Trump his…
Will Red Sea strikes disrupt the UK economy?
November is proving to have been a lucky month in Britain. Inflation slowed significantly: from 4.6 per cent on the…
Will inflation return to normal this year?
When will inflation return to the target rate? According to its latest forecasts, the Bank of England isn’t expecting inflation…
The real reason junior doctors are striking
Any remaining question about who NHS strikes are supposed to benefit has been put to rest this week. Industrial action…
The Tories’ immigration U-turn didn’t take long
Has the immigration U-turn already begun? When Home Secretary James Cleverly announced his overhaul of the legal migration system at the start…
Interest rates may start to fall – but not yet
The Bank of England has held interest rates at 5.25 per cent for the third consecutive time. This was the expected outcome…
Is Britain’s economy ‘going backwards’?
Has the UK economy come to a standstill? This morning we learn that the economy contracted by 0.3 per cent…
The Tories’ migration crackdown will have many victims
The UK’s immigration system must be ‘fair, consistent, legal and sustainable’, proclaimed the new Home Secretary as he presented his…
Starmer offers a heavy dose of the big state
Keir Starmer wants to set expectations early. Speaking at the Resolution Foundation’s economy conference later today, the opposition leader used…
When will Rishi Sunak see sense on the Triple Lock?
When Jeremy Hunt announced his ‘Autumn Statement for Growth’ last week, there was a slight problem: the Office for Budget…
New Zealand’s smoking ban u-turn is bad news for Rishi Sunak
New Zealand’s new coalition government has announced that it will scrap Jacinda Ardern’s plan to usher in a generational smoking…
In defence of the latest high migration figures
The debate over migration figures released today seems to be whether or not we’ve reached a new ‘record high’. The…
The truth about Hunt’s ‘tax cutting’ Autumn Statement
Jeremy Hunt’s March Budget was an exercise in Big State Toryism. It lacked meaningful tax cuts, was full of new spending promises,…
Can Jeremy Hunt cut taxes in good conscience?
When the government announces a range of tax cuts tomorrow, it has pledged to do so in a ‘sustainable’ way.…
Why have Sunak and Hunt suddenly decided they want tax cuts?
The government’s transition on taxes has taken place at lightning speed. We’ve gone from chancellor Jeremy Hunt hinting at tax…
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…
