Economy

Is this Rachel Reeves’s idea of a programme for growth?

31 August 2024 9:00 am

It is certainly true that the Labour party has been more than a little devious over the tax rises that…

My time on Hinge

31 August 2024 9:00 am

Back to work, back to school, back to politics: the French call it la rentrée and my own summer idyll…

The myth of Britain’s fleeing non-doms

24 August 2024 9:00 am

According to popular imagination, the skies over Britain have been full these past few months of fleets of private jets…

Rachel Reeves has proved that strikes pay

3 August 2024 9:00 am

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were adamant that economic growth would be their first priority in government. It is hard…

Give us a pubs tsar – but spare us Tim Martin

3 August 2024 9:00 am

More than a third of UK universities are in financial doo-doo: staff cuts, cancelled courses, slashed research budgets and possible…

Labour won’t spend outside fiscal rules, says Reeves

21 July 2024 11:12 pm

Chancellor Reeves adamant she will ‘make sure the sums add up’ Rachel Reeves gave an interview with Laura Kuenssberg this…

Will Reeves boost public sector pay?

21 July 2024 9:02 pm

As the dust around the election settles, a question Tory MPs and supporters still grapple with is why Rishi Sunak…

Portrait of the Week: Farage returns, Abbott reselected and Trump guilty

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Home Nigel Farage took over leadership of the Reform party from Richard Tice and is standing for parliament in Clacton.…

Javier Milei’s radical reforms could start to heal Argentina’s economy

17 December 2023 10:46 pm

Argentina has spent most of its 200-year history in deficit; no other country currently owes the International Monetary Fund a…

The beauty of mid-range products

4 November 2023 9:00 am

Once or twice, when on a crowded overnight flight, I have taken a sneaky stroll through the different cabins for…

Will the collapse of councils be the next great scandal?

9 September 2023 9:00 am

Last month India managed to land a spacecraft on the moon for a third of the price of refurbishing Hammersmith…

Britain has an entitlement problem

9 September 2023 9:00 am

An Institute for Fiscal Studies paper, published at the end of last month, makes grim reading. Through the prism of…

Sunak can’t blame landlords for not stopping illegal immigration

7 August 2023 11:34 pm

Small companies will face massive fines for not checking the papers of everyone they hire. Landlords will be put out…

Reasons to be cheerful? Yes, I think I see some

22 July 2023 9:00 am

‘Always be cheerful’ – a motto to which I’ll return in the final item – speaks to my natural demeanour.…

Jonathan Ashworth: ‘We are at risk of a lost generation’

8 July 2023 9:00 am

Jonathan Ashworth on Labour’s plans to cut unemployment

‘We’ve got to hold our nerve’: Rishi Sunak’s BBC interview

25 June 2023 8:52 pm

As mortgage rates surge and a new Opinium poll finds Labour’s lead has jumped to 18 points, Rishi Sunak appeared…

Red Rishi: the Prime Minister’s political makeover

3 June 2023 9:00 am

The Tories are trying on Labour’s clothes

The UK’s treatment of Activision shows it is closed for business

27 April 2023 3:07 am

It was, admittedly, not quite as thrilling as an action sequence from Call of Duty. Even so, the statement put…

What Miriam Cates gets right – and wrong – about declining fertility

24 February 2023 2:11 am

Fulfil your civic duty. Get married. Have children. That was the message from Miriam Cates, the increasingly prominent Conservative backbencher, to guests…

The £5.4 billion government surplus masks a larger economic issue

21 February 2023 11:54 pm

There have been celebrations this morning about a government surplus of £5.4 billion last month, and people are even talking…

Government borrowing hits £27.4 billion

24 January 2023 9:34 pm

Rishi Sunak ruffled his own party’s feathers last week when – in reference to last autumn’s market turmoil – he…