Reports in the Guardian this morning suggest that ministers and other Tories are demanding tax cuts as the price of their support for Johnson, and
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As regular readers of this blog will know, I have strong republican sympathies. I most recently made that clear in the aftermath of the Jubilee
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I wrote this yesterday: A vision has to address people’s hopes and their fears. Everyone has both. The balance between them determines the public mood
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I campaigned for automatic information exchange from tax havens for a long time. Perhaps my most important paper on the issue was published in 2009.
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I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: We know we have a government that lies. We know it is corrupt. And its big new
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There is a deep malaise in British politics (I use the term deliberately). We are all fatigued by Johnson’s antics and incompetence, but that is
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I tweeted this thread this morning: As I made clear yesterday, the package of measures introduced yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to address the
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Rishi Sunak is to announce measures to tackle the cost of living crisis today. He will supposedly spend £10 billion. He will also announce a
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In the midst of Partygate and all that goes with it the possibility that the continuing passage of the Public Order Bill now before the
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