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Ross ClarkThe Spectator |
‘Growth in every postcode’, ‘levelling up’ – whatever you call it, it is easier to sympathise with the general aim of raising living...
I am not having an election because I am going to stick to the 2024 manifesto on which Labour was elected. That’s Andy Burnham’s position, but...
Does anyone really believe that Andy Burnham will succeed in cutting welfare benefits for 16–24-year-olds, as is being reported? Good luck to him if...
Keen to keep up the momentum on his big (or not so big) ideas, Andy Burnham will apparently announce on Friday that in future some revenue from income...
Andy Burnham has made it clear that he doesn’t much like free markets. And they are making it equally clear that they don’t much like him, either....
Many were the voices arguing that Ed Miliband would be a disaster if appointed Chancellor, frightening markets and sending Britain even further down...
We keep hearing that Andy Burnham’s government will be the most left-wing since the 1970s, when the namesake of the new chancellor promised to...
Why not blame Herbert Asquith or Lord Aberdeen? Andy Burnham’s line about reversing ‘40 years of neo-liberalism’ – i.e. since the Thatcher...
Keir Starmer won’t leave much of a legacy, but his last week has brought one thing which will be seen as a totemic achievement in Labour circles: he...
Earnings are taxed too highly, Andy Burnham has hinted, and wealth too little. I don’t hold much hope for a cut in income tax, but I think we can...
I’m a little sceptical of reports that Ed Miliband is prepared to back down and accept new drilling for gas in the Jackdaw field in return for being...
No-one has spent more time opposing Britain’s net zero target than me. I wrote a whole book on it as well as dozens of columns. I have addressed...
It is a mark of Nigel Farage’s position on the nation’s consciousness that he has succeeded in pushing the judgement in the Prince Harry vs...
‘Only the little people pay taxes,’ New York hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley was once reputed to have said. She later discovered, as she was jailed...
Is Thomas Tuchel a secret agent sent by Friedrich Merz’s government to ruin the UK economy and education system so as to make life easier for German...
Is Andy Burnham plotting to base his premiership around a policy of ‘cost of living populism’? That is what is being reported following the...
Andy Burnham is not prime minister yet, but he has already outdone John Major. Whoever thought of putting him in a grey outfit against the backdrop of...
Andy Burnham is not giving much away as to what a government led by him would look like. Given that it seems unlikely there will be a leadership...
Is the Right ready to take advantage of a fractious Left in the increasingly unlikely scenario that Andy Burnham will call a general election if he...
Government bonds haven’t had a great few days, but there is one asset which has plummeted far quicker in value this morning: all the Wes...
The Makerfield by-election – in which Andy Burnham swept to victory overnight – has been presented as a fight for the soul of Britain, but in a...
If you thought that Net Zero couldn’t get any sillier, it just has. Remember how, according to Boris Johnson, Britain was going to become the...
It was 20 years ago last month that the then Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that nuclear power was “back on agenda with a vengeance”. His...
So, is an open labour market a good thing or not? There is little point in looking to the government for guidance on this. A few weeks ago, ministers...
If we have learned anything from the Makerfield by-election campaign it is what a slippery character Andy Burnham is. Last September, in an interview...
The Mandelson files have produced a truly damning revelation about Keir Starmer’s government. But it is one which will be of little interest to many...
Andy Burnham thinks Tony Blair is missing something, and he is being too polite to say it is a few screws. He thinks that the former prime...
Andy Burnham has been described as Labour’s ‘king over the water’ who could save us from the turgid decline of Starmer’s premiership, but...
Where the Tories failed on controlling Britain’s borders, letting net migration surge to an unprecedented 944,000 in the year to March 2023, Labour...
One of the many complaints levied against Keir Starmer is that he is fundamentally bad at politics; he doesn’t know how to win people over, keep...
At any other time the GDP figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning would have come as a huge relief for Keir Starmer...
A few weeks ago it seemed as if some sense was finally creeping into Labour’s energy policy. It was reported at one stage that even Ed Miliband...
Logic, sadly, points to one all-too-likely victor from the Labour leadership crisis: Ed Miliband. On the principle of ‘he who wields the sword never...
What a lucky fellow Zack Polanski is, in that his little council tax issue has come to light on the day that Keir Starmer ought to – and yet still...
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is that there are a lot of them....
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is that there are a lot of them....
No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council areas are nothing more than was...
Just what were business leaders expecting when so many of them sucked up to Labour before the 2024 general election? Only Keir Starmer’s party, 121...
I make no suggestion as to whether Christian Brueckner, the convicted rapist suspected of kidnapping and killing Madeleine McCann, is either guilty or...
The worst thing about the government’s plans to force pension providers to invest their money in particular assets is that ministers and MPs...
Sooner or later, Airbnb is going to change its name to Airb, partly because it takes less time to type, and partly because it is becoming a...
Never let a good crisis go to waste, as they say. And Rachel Reeves has made it quite clear that she is going to milk the Iran war for all it is...
Liz Truss’s greatest fiscal sin was her Energy Price Guarantee. True, markets didn’t like her tax cuts unmatched by spending cuts, and a Budget...
Donald Trump’s second presidency began with a blaze of executive orders which horrified and impressed in equal measure. It also begged the...
What have North Sea oil and gas production and grammar school education got in common? Both are subject to a fiddle by which they can be expanded...
First the good news. Some commercial users may be enjoying free electricity at some point this summer – or better still, they may even be paid to...
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but coming at the beginning of a local election campaign in which his party is expected to make a huge...
Our invertebrate government has struck again. Given the chance to show a bit of backbone in the face of demands by the PCS union that staff at the...
Like US wartime presidents before him, Donald Trump made a priority of, and has succeeded, in attaining air superiority over Iran. Unfortunately, he...
How miraculous. Britain is full of people with devastating afflictions, with millions apparently unable to walk a few yards from the nearest car park....
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