Sir Keir Starmer should cheer up
The new Prime Minister’s gloomy rhetoric is not encouraging.
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The new Prime Minister’s gloomy rhetoric is not encouraging.
The Chancellor’s Budget was a last-ditch attempt to save his party from impending electoral defeat.
Perhaps the most enlightened – and vital – of all Hunt’s measures was his ambitious scheme to boost public sector productivity.
Advanced briefings have turned budgets into non-events. Any excitement is gone by the time chancellors deliver their statement.
Tax will play a big part at the next election, so politicians should look back at Nigel Lawson’s reforms, which changed the psychology of British business.
Everyone in Westminster and the City is waiting nervously to see if we’re going to tumble into another banking crisis.
The country still punches well above its weight when it comes to technology and innovation – but it could be doing better.
Britain desperately needs growth. Yet the Chancellor is raising taxation to its highest level since the Second World War.
As the risk of a second banking crisis in 15 years rises, might it be time for banks to employ independent economic advisors?
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