It could be argued that my suggestion that we have seen peak Labour, made yesterday was either premature or wrong given the overnight by-election results
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Labour’s continuing inability to manage candidate selection for forthcoming elections, despite Keir Starmer’s seemingly fetishistic demand for control of this process, gives rise to an
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As the Office for National Statistics has announced this morning: UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in Quarter 4
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As the FT has reported this morning: The number of applications to nursing courses at UK universities has fallen sharply, prompting the Royal College of
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The FT had a report yesterday that suggested that: Jeremy Hunt is considering slashing billions of pounds from public spending plans to fund pre-election tax
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I noted a new report from the Resolution Foundation on Monday. In that report, that think tank suggested that maybe 30% of all households in
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As the Office for National Statistics has reported this morning: The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 4.0% in the 12 months to December 2023,
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I was reminded this morning of this comment in a review of the impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt
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I noticed this Tweet thread yesterday: The creeping spread of fascism is apparent in every word of that. Gary Lineker cannot express his personal opinions
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