Why does poverty still exist in one of the richest countries on earth? In this video, I respond to a claim made by Mark Littlewood
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget this week has several themes. She gave the City what it wanted. She spent almost nothing on anything that might add value
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For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen,
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The Treasury yesterday produced a distributional analysis of the Budget, plus last year’s fiasco from Reeves. They said: This document sets out estimates of the impact
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There was a comment posted on this blog overnight, which might reasonably be called a tirade about the temerity of my suggestion that we might
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To mark today’s Budget, the Funding the Future team has pulled together and now published my Alternative Budget speech that has been developed, refined and
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Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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