I have been playing with some of the figures in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts this morning. The following is table 4.24 on welfare
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The UK has one of the largest, if not the largest, register of companies in the world. In September 2016 there were 3,795,682 UK companies
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As I have reported recently, I am now engaged on two EU funded research projects at City, University of London. These are entitled Coffers and
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The FT is making much of the fact that an organisation to which Andy Haldane and Will Hutton are linked has rejected Theresa May’s proposals
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I am so bored with hearing that all issues relating to the EU were decided in the June referendum. I am even more bored with
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Once there was, supposedly, a ‘long term economic plan’. How often were those words spun out by Conservatives? It was said do often we all
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This is one of the better summaries of the impact of Tory economic policy that I have seen: [RT]he outlook for living standards has deteriorated
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It was a moment of pure pleasure to be joined in the LBC tent on College Green yesterday by Caroline Lucas MP, co-leader of the
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I have long argued that UK tax avoidance is very much higher than HMRC admits. Even yesterday Philip Hammond took a swipe at Labour for
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