I have spent much of this afternoon, a) talking to journalists and b) trying to work out how the Budget adds up. The first task
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The Budget: first reactions
I am writing this, minutes after hearing the Budget, having read little of the reaction of others to it, and having just come out of
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To be selfish or not, that is the question
The Office for Budget Responsibility published this in March 2023, but the data has not moved that much since then: There will be much talk
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Labour is still talking about the government’s maxed out credit card
I just posted this on Twitter: He was talking to Sussana Reid (who is an excellent interviewer) on Good Morning Britain. With incompetence on this
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The German government is going to splash €200 billion on supporting its failing private pension arrangements that are going to crash whatever they do sometime soon
The FT reports this morning that: Germany to create €200bn fund to support strained pension system The story says: The German government will invest billions
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No government can spend itself out of a recession
The Tories have always tried to deny that a government can spend itself out of a recession, but Jeremy Hunt has a much more bizarre
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Jeremy Hunt’s Budget already looks to be failing
I will be headed to the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London during the course of this morning. As has been the case for well over
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