These are my contemporaneous notes made as Reeves spoke on her Spending Review this lunchtime. I stress – they were just notes – nothing more,
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Does Rachel Reeves need to deliver a new Budget?
The world has changed. Does Rachel Reeves need to get back to the Despatch Box in the House of Commons and announce a change to
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Rachel Reeves’ figures in the Spring Statement don‘t stack up – and are very scary
Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement either doesn’t add up, or it reveals a deeply dangerous economic policy, and it may do both. This is a long
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Words in yesterday’s OBR report
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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Reeves is in a mess
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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On the Jeremy Vine Show
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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The Spring Statement – a rolling blog post
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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What will Rachel Reeves do today?
What will Rachel Reeves do today? I have been reading about, listening to, and then watching budgets since the 1970s, and for all practical purposes,
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Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City?
Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal
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