Peter May got to this issue quicker than I did yesterday. Peter writes regularly on the a Progressive Pulse blog that I publish. He said
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Answering the question ‘How are you going to pay for it?’
I wrote this at the time of the 2017 general election. Nothing much has changed since then. The question remains the same today, as does
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The government has utterly screwed up its support for British business – to add to its list of coronavirus failures
What seems like a lifetime ago, but was in fact little more than two weeks back, the Chancellor announced a £330bn bailout plan for British
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£55 billion of NHS PFI debt has not been written off: with so much else that now needs to be reformed if the NHS is to serve us into the future
The government supposedly wrote off £13.4 billion of NHS debt yesterday. It didn’t: as I have already pointed out, all it did was make a
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Writing off NHS debt of £13.4 billion is a charade. What is required instead is the renationalisation of the NHS: nothing less will do
As the Guardian has noted this afternoon: To help NHS trusts deliver what’s needed, Hancock has written off £13.4bn of historic NHS debt. He said
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The government has now announced there will be bank loan and credit card repayment holidays – which I asked for on budget day, three weeks ago
Three weeks late the Guardian has noted that the government has today said: The financial regulator has announced plans to freeze loan and credit card
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In one hour today we moved from recession, to depression and then on to slump
There had to be a statistic that would make people appreciate just how serious the current economic crisis is. That statistic has now arrived. It
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Johnson needs to stop lying
This is from Politico’s morning email, which is worth subscribing to: PM direct: No doubt warned of the incoming volley of abuse, Johnson tried to get
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The UK economy will be a wasteland by this summer
There are some words you say that you never regret. When Jeremey Vine asked me what I thought of Rish Sunak’s budget on March 11
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