I did a quick search on what I thought to be key words in the OBR report yesterday. The results were: Austerity – none Fiscal
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As the New York Times has reported this morning: President Trump said on Wednesday that he would impose a 25 percent tariff on cars and
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As Chris Giles notes in the FT this morning: Independent? Experts? Really? The evidence to support the claim is hard to find.

What was important about the Spring Statement from Rachel Reeves was what it did not say –  like mortgage rates are going to rise by
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Made by my son when watching Reeves this lunchtime:

I have kept saying, since Trump was re-elected, that the likelihood was that the end of the rule of law in the USA was nigh.
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This is a clip of the exchanges on Reeves ‘ Spring Statement between me, Mark Littlewood of the Popular Conservatives and Jeremy Vine, broadcast from
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This blog post is going to be updated frequently during the course of Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement, the delivery of which should start at 12.30
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This was drawn to my attention today by commentator John Boxall. It was in The New Statesman in 2023: In 1962 I was a Conservative.
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