New money is part of the solution to our problems
Sunday, May 29th, 2022My Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, has this letter in the FT today: Dear Sir, Your editorial (Ministers should be clear: there are
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We need constitutional reform to tackle the malaise in British politics
Saturday, May 28th, 2022There is a deep malaise in British politics (I use the term deliberately). We are all fatigued by Johnson’s antics and incompetence, but that is
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Sunak's bailout package was a massive bung to the energy sector that will not stop inflation, but will increase inequality
Friday, May 27th, 2022I tweeted this thread this morning: As I made clear yesterday, the package of measures introduced yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to address the
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Sunak’s glory days have long gone: today will see a miserable package of measures that will fall far short of the required level of action
Thursday, May 26th, 2022Rishi Sunak is to announce measures to tackle the cost of living crisis today. He will supposedly spend £10 billion. He will also announce a
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Work is not the way out of the cost of living crisis
Monday, May 23rd, 2022According to Boris Johnson work is the way out of the cost of living crisis. Like the Bank of England, Johnson claims the UK has
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Public sector debt paranoia at this moment in time is no excuse for the government imposing private poverty on the UK’s population
Friday, May 20th, 2022As the Guardian has noted: Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1974 amid growing concern over the
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Sunak is a man sleep-walking himself to failure, dragging us with him
Thursday, May 19th, 2022Because I am discussing what Rishi Sunak had to say when addressing the CBI last night with Nick Ferrari on LBC at just after 7
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What Andrew Bailey should be telling MPs today
Monday, May 16th, 2022The poverty of Tory thinking is going to be very clearly on display this afternoon. Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, is going
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The government has got it very wrong if they think that deregulating the City is going to help right now
Monday, May 16th, 2022As The Guardian reports this morning: A group of 58 leading economists and politicians, including the former business minister Vince Cable, has written to the chancellor
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