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The UK leaves recession behind in 2023

This morning the Office for National Statistics (ONS) confirmed that the UK confined its technical recession to 2023. The economy grew by 0.6 per...

10.05.2024 10

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Andrew Bailey paves the way for a summer interest rate cut

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has voted to hold interest rates for the sixth time in a row. Members of the MPC voted 7 – 2 to...

09.05.2024 10

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Can Labour or the Tories fix the economy?

It’s all but certain that the UK’s exit from recession will be confirmed at the end of this week. Preliminary Q1 data, released on Friday, is...

07.05.2024 10

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Will Britain ever escape the low growth trap?

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) latest report, published this morning, downgrades Britain’s growth prospects...

02.05.2024 20

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Joseph Stiglitz: ‘We know where fascism led last time’

When Joseph Stiglitz talks, the left listens. The Nobel laureate has advised multiple Democratic presidents and the World Bank, where he worked as...

02.05.2024 100

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Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways doesn’t add up

Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways is not much of a plan at all. Rather, it is a list of goals: to eliminate ‘fragmentation, waste,...

26.04.2024 10

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Will Sunak’s welfare reforms get more people back into work?

Chancellor Rishi Sunak had days to design the furlough scheme. Once lockdown became mandatory in spring 2020, it was a race against the clock to...

19.04.2024 30

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The dangers of political prosecution

At the start of January, Donald Trump offered up a cheery new year message for Americans. ‘If I don’t get immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden...

18.04.2024 30

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Stubbed out / Liberty is dying under the Tories

It seems political consensus isn’t dead. It’s simply been hibernating, waiting for a kind of crackdown on personal liberty that is so popular that...

17.04.2024 9

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Liberty is dying under the Tories

It seems political consensus isn’t dead. It’s simply been hibernating, waiting for a kind of crackdown on personal liberty that is so popular that...

16.04.2024 9

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Britain needs more than tinkering to get growth going

It’s not just Britain that has a growth problem. Today’s release of the IMF’s April 2024 World Economic Outlook report argues that the global...

16.04.2024 5

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The UK leaves recession behind in 2023

The economy grew by 0.1 per cent in February: not much to celebrate on its own but the small uptick in GDP all but confirms that the UK is leaving its...

12.04.2024 7

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Why no one is celebrating a small fall in NHS waiting lists

The NHS England waiting list has fallen for a fifth month in a row: to 7.54 million in February, down from 7.58 million in January. Since September...

11.04.2024 6

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The UK’s economic problems are far bigger than a ‘recession’

It was extremely optimistic to think the UK could revise its way out of recession. After the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported GDP figures...

28.03.2024 10

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Medical emergency / Britain is falling out of love with the NHS

Rishi Sunak doesn’t speak much about his five priorities these days, apart from inflation, which ‘halved’ as promised. On NHS waiting lists,...

27.03.2024 5

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Economy / The Bank of England is edging closer to an interest rate cut

The Bank of England has voted to keep rates at 5.25 per cent – but there are signs that a rate cut may not be far off. The Monetary Policy...

21.03.2024 10

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Britain just can’t stop spending

Will Jeremy Hunt have scope to deliver more tax cuts before the next election? Tory MPs certainly hope so, as cuts to employee National Insurance in...

21.03.2024 6

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Royal farce / America’s obsession with Kate-gate

Kate Andrews has narrated this article for you to listen to. Has Kate Middleton united America? For the past few days, we have been one nation under...

21.03.2024 10

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Inflation drops to its lowest level in two years

Inflation has slowed once again, to 3.4 per cent in the 12 months to February, down from 4 per cent in January. This takes the inflation rate to its...

20.03.2024 20

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Can Rachel Reeves really guarantee economic security?

Every year the Mais lecture, hosted by Bayes Business School, gives its speaker a chance to lay out their vision for the economy. It’s how we knew...

20.03.2024 10

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Sunak says the economy is doing better. Is he right?

Is Britain’s economy ‘turning a corner’? Rishi Sunak thinks so, but convincing his fellow MPs and the public is going to be difficult. At the...

18.03.2024 6

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Sinister panto about the formation of the NHS: Nye, at the Olivier Theatre, reviewed

Kate Andrews has narrated this article for you to listen to. A Judy Garland rendition, dancing nurses, a star lead: no spectacle is spared in Tim...

14.03.2024 4

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Britain’s recession looks like it’s over

Is the UK already out of recession? It’s a question that won’t be confirmed for months, but this morning’s update from the Office for National...

13.03.2024 10

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Could Jeremy Hunt actually abolish National Insurance?

Could Jeremy Hunt really abolish employee National Insurance (NI)? His additional 2p cut announced in yesterday’s Budget seems to be the start of...

07.03.2024 20

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Never Trumpers were never going to win

‘We fight for every inch,’ declared Nikki Haley after she won her first primary in the District of Columbia last week. Her fight didn’t last...

07.03.2024 9

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We’re cutting your taxes, claims party that raised the taxes

Can the Tory party now credibly claim it is cutting taxes? That was the big mystery going into Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election Budget this afternoon, as...

06.03.2024 40

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Would another cut to National Insurance be enough to move the polls?

We’ll know tomorrow afternoon what exactly Jeremy Hunt has included in his Budget, but reports this evening suggest we’re looking at another 2p...

05.03.2024 8

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Is this really the Tory party’s election budget?

February was a tough month for Jeremy Hunt, as he tried to roll back the tax cut promises that were made by himself and Rishi Sunak in January. The...

03.03.2024 10

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Migration is too high, says party in charge of migration for 14 years

When Rishi Sunak made ‘stopping the boats’ one of his five priorities after entering No. 10, he ensured that immigration (legal and illegal) would...

29.02.2024 8

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Can Jeremy Hunt actually afford to cut taxes right now?

Does Jeremy Hunt have the cash to spend on tax cuts in his spring Budget next week? That’s the billion pound question that the Institute for Fiscal...

27.02.2024 20

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Falling energy prices raise hopes of a Spring rate cut

The good news started with the revelation that last month had produced a surplus of £16.7 billion for the Treasury – double the surplus of the same...

23.02.2024 6

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Why Britain stopped working

What sent the economy into recession at the end of last year? The government blames higher interest rates, ushered in by the Bank of England. The Bank...

22.02.2024 10

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Jeremy Hunt’s cash boost isn’t quite what it seems

Jeremy Hunt needed some good news this morning, when the monthly public sector finance update was released by the Office for National Statistics...

21.02.2024 20

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Do the Tories need reminding who raised the tax burden?

The Tories have had a tax problem for quite some time. But news of a recession at the end of last year has made matters much worse.  It has been an...

15.02.2024 8

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The UK is in recession – but for how long?

At the start of last year Rishi Sunak made the promise to ‘get the economy growing’ one of his five major pledges. Today he is confronted with...

15.02.2024 20

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Inflation stays at 4 per cent – despite Red Sea disruption

The government had been facing two economic challenges this week, ahead of the by-elections in Kingswood and Wellingborough: the publication of the...

14.02.2024 10

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Job vacancies fall – but not by enough to lower inflation rates

Has the Labour market cooled down enough for the Bank of England to change its mind on interest rates? Almost certainly not, based on the latest...

13.02.2024 9

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Why Starmer had to ditch his £28 billion green pledge

What will Labour’s flagship promise be going into the next election? There’s a policy vacancy, now that the party plans to ditch its pledge to...

08.02.2024 10

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Interest rate cuts are on the horizon

The Bank of England (BoE) has held interest rates at 5.25 per cent for the fourth time in a row. This is no big surprise: with inflation ticking...

01.02.2024 6

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How the Tories gave up on liberty

Rishi Sunak stood glowering over a school table and listed, with disdain, the flavours of the vapes that lay on the table in front of him....

01.02.2024 20

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Can Jeremy Hunt really afford more tax cuts?

On the face of it, this morning’s public sector finance update is good news. The government borrowed £7.8 billion in December last year. This is...

23.01.2024 20

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Will spring tax cuts move the polls?

More tax cuts are on their way. That is the message this morning from both the Prime Minister and Chancellor, who have written comment pieces in  The...

21.01.2024 20

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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 suggestion at Davos that they are...

19.01.2024 5

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Javier Milei is a breath of fresh air

Each year the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland draws the conspiratorial eye. In truth, nothing is happening in the ski town...

18.01.2024 4

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Going up / Rising inflation makes a speedy interest rate cut less likely

Inflation rose to 4 per cent on the year to December, up slightly from 3.9 per cent the previous month. It’s the first time the inflation rate has...

17.01.2024 30

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Trump’s hold on Republican voters is as strong as ever

Iowans have just delivered Trump the biggest caucus win in history In recent years, the caucus has been a better gauge for what the grassroots of the...

16.01.2024 5

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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 year in October down to 3.9 per...

12.01.2024 10

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Will Britain get down to normal inflation levels this year?

When will inflation return to the target rate? According to its latest forecasts, the Bank of England isn’t expecting inflation to slow to 2 per...

11.01.2024 20

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