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Michael SimmonsThe Spectator |
Behind the scenes of The Spectator’s wealth tax debate last month there were lots of nervous whispers. “Wealthy people we work with are absolutely...
There was a palpable frustration from the Prime Minister in his Labour conference speech this week. ‘I would love to go quicker’, Andy Burnham...
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear black T-shirts. Andy Burnham has done what nearly every British politician knows needs to be done but dares never...
The first half of John Healey’s first Labour conference speech as Chancellor reminded me of old men in a bowls club reminiscing about the Korean...
Behind the scenes of The Spectator’s wealth tax debate this month there were lots of nervous whispers. ‘Wealthy people we work with are absolutely...
Behind the scenes of The Spectator’s wealth tax debate this month there were lots of nervous whispers. ‘Wealthy people we work with are absolutely...
Ever since bond vigilantes around the world decided it was time to offload their holdings in sovereign debt, Westminster has assumed that tax rises...
Behind the scenes of The Spectator’s wealth tax debate this month there were lots of nervous whispers. ‘Wealthy people we work with are absolutely...
The Bank of England has just voted six-three to hold interest rates at 3.75 per cent, a decision that makes Britain’s central bank an outlier...
Britain is heading head first towards another cost of living crisis. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show inflation rose...
Britain is in a wage spiral – though not a traditional one. Instead, job and wage growth is surging in the public sector while the private sector...
There are lots of reasons to seriously worry about the economy at the moment. The price of oil is surging, bonds are slumping (meaning yields are up...
John Healey stood in front of two giant robotic arms this week and promised to ‘make Great Britain Growth Britain again’. The Chancellor also...
When Andrew Griffith was appointed shadow chancellor on Monday, Labour MPs made much merriment of his involvement in the Liz Truss mini-Budget. Just a...
If the first job of a government is national security the second probably ought to be food security. Odd, then, that the SNP seems to be pursuing a...
Welcome to kite-flying season. With exactly two months to go until Andy Burnham and John Healey’s first Budget, we’re beginning to get a shape of...
When I heard that a civil service insider had made bullying allegations against Scotland’s deputy first minister, Jenny Gilruth, I was not...
There’s good and bad news in the public finance figures, released by the Office for National Statistics this morning. July saw something of a...
This week, Andy Burnham, in an article about how much he loves buses, declared that he will lead a ‘cost of living government’. Yet costs are...
Is the Burnham bounce about to fizzle out? This morning has seen the first shaky set of economic figures since his ascension to Mayor of Great...
It’s reassuring to know the government has the ability to live-tweet the slow decline of Britain. We won’t go out with a whimper: we’ll crash...
Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his Chancellor John Healey are not having a bad start. Sure, there’s trouble ahead: the Budget is going to be...
Our supermarkets are showing remarkable restraint. The previous Chancellor and now the new one can’t resist slandering them. In...
Our supermarkets are showing remarkable restraint. The previous Chancellor and now the new one can’t resist slandering them. In...
One of the first magazine cover pieces I wrote as economics editor was: ‘Go – Why the Rich Are Fleeing Britain’. It claimed that changes to the...
Energy prices have been on the rise again in recent weeks and fears of another inflationary shock are, again, on economists’ lips. For now, though,...
If John Healey wants to succeed as Chancellor, he needs to get a grip on the Office for National Statistics (ONS). I’ve written about the troubles...
‘I’m done with Trump,’ fumed a normally MAGA-supportive retail trader as he watched an investment that was particularly Hormuz-sensitive...
If John Healey wants to succeed as Chancellor, he needs to get a grip on the Office for National Statistics (ONS). I’ve written about the troubles...
Figures released this morning by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show inflation fell to 2.6 per cent in June – down from the 2.8 per cent...
John Healey has been hit with a triple whammy on his first full day as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just...
Andy Burnham’s government could be entertaining to watch but disastrous for the country. Reports suggest that one of the options Burnham could...
Britain is crippled. More of us than ever before are disabled. One in four, at the last count. But it is a statistic so obviously at odds with reality...
Britain is crippled. More of us than ever before are disabled. One in four, at the last count. But it is a statistic so obviously at odds with reality...
Rachel Reeves last night made what is surely her final Mansion House speech to the business bigwigs, obscure liverymen and bankers of the City of...
If I were Andy Burnham, I’d be terrified about the inheritance Keir Starmer has left. Yet instead of stepping gingerly towards Downing Street,...
If I were Andy Burnham, I’d be terrified about the inheritance Keir Starmer has left. Yet instead of stepping gingerly towards Downing Street,...
If I were Andy Burnham, I’d be terrified about the inheritance Keir Starmer has left. Yet instead of stepping gingerly towards Downing Street,...
Andy Burnham has catapulted his way back to Westminster in a landslide victory, winning 55 per cent of the vote in Makerfield. The scale of that...
Unsurprisingly, the Bank of England has voted to keep interest rates at 3.75 per cent. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which decides...
This week has been described by some as Keir Starmer’s ‘legacy week’. The ban on social media and the G7 summit in Evian were meant to show what...
The Chancellor will be breathing a sigh of relief this morning as inflation holds steady. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics...
One of the things wrong with Britain is our inability to say no to campaign groups once they win a hearing on the One Show. One rare exception to that...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word ‘social’ in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn’t about due...
The final tranche of the Mandelson files was released this afternoon – though no thanks to Lord Mandelson. A Cabinet Office note released alongside...
‘It is hard not to be pessimistic when you examine the data,’ former health secretary Alan Milburn says in the foreword to his report into young...
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