Labour is promoting the household analogy that suggests it will be constrained when in office by a lack of money - and that is not true
Monday, October 9th, 2023Rachel Reeves told The Mirror today that: “I know how hard people work for their money and they see more and more of it go in
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Reeves is promising to fail
Sunday, October 8th, 2023The Labour Party was socialist, once upon a time. This was Clause IV of its constitution as drafted by the Webbs in 1917: To secure
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How will Labour pay for 300,000 now social houses a year? It needs to say.
Saturday, October 7th, 2023I wrote this Tweet last night: As a result I was invited onto the Today programme this morning. The discussion was to have been on
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We needn’t be in managed decline, but we are because neoliberal politicians see no other option
Friday, October 6th, 2023The FT has a headline this morning that says: The article that follows is predictable. The fear is of a backlash against public investment. The
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In the Mirror: is Sunak a fit and proper person to run the country?
Thursday, October 5th, 2023The Mirror quotes me at length this morning, saying: Some have claimed Sunak’s alleged financial links to Russia mean he is not a “fit” to
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Who didn’t repair the roof when the sun shone?
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023UK government debt yields have reached five per cent. A couple of years ago the same debt could be issued at 1.5 per cent. You
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Of course HS2 hasn’t worked: it was so over designed it had no hope of doing so, let alone on budget
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023I saw a Renault 4 today, in near pristine condition. It brought back many memories. I had one on the 80s. It had an enormous
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The far-right are the only certain winners from the Tory’s total disarray
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023Outside the party there was a consensus on the Tory’s objective for this week. They had to make it seem as if election defeat was
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Capital gains tax on homes: the next steps
Friday, September 29th, 2023I always thought that yesterday’s suggestion that capital gains tax be charged on people’s main residences would, first of all, be the most controversial suggestion
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