This is out this morning: My thanks to Jim Stone and David Mullins who helped in the production process. I hope that this might help
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I just spotted this: The Tory lead on the economy, long their strength, has gone.

As the FT noted yeseterday afternoon: The IMF predicted that Britain’s economy would increase by just 1.2 per cent in 2023 and that its inflation
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So, Johnson apologised with, he claimed, ‘full humility.’ The trouble was, no one relay believed that, and for one good reason. That reason is that
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According to The Guardian this morning: Britain’s economy is at growing risk of falling into a summer recession amid the biggest squeeze on household incomes
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Today will be interesting, politically. It will also, almost certainly, be depressing. Johnson has to make a statement to the Commons on being fined. It
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Yesterday the Archbishops of Canterbury and York attacked the government’s plans to deport asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda. I use the term deport
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In the book I am working on I ask the question ‘what is government for?’ After all, working out how to pay for what the
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This tweet is from my friend and fellow Mile End Road economist Danny Blanchflower: Danny has promoted the idea that the public knows better than
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