Sometime soon Labour needs to talk about the macroeconomic reality that we face, because it is probably nothing like as good as Hunt predicts
Thursday, March 7th, 2024According to the Chancellor, all that matters about the Budget is that he meets his fiscal rule. For reasons that no one is aware of
Read the full article…
We have a tax time bomb waiting to explode in the UK. Is Labour going to let it go off?
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024I have spent much of this afternoon, a) talking to journalists and b) trying to work out how the Budget adds up. The first task
Read the full article…
The Budget: first reactions
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024I am writing this, minutes after hearing the Budget, having read little of the reaction of others to it, and having just come out of
Read the full article…
To be selfish or not, that is the question
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024The Office for Budget Responsibility published this in March 2023, but the data has not moved that much since then: There will be much talk
Read the full article…
How to pay for a Green New Deal
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024I was at a meeting of the Green New Deal Group in parliament last night. Let me leave aside the increasing absurdity that I feel
Read the full article…
Budget messaging
Monday, March 4th, 2024I was on LBC radio yesterday, talking about this week’s budget . At 9 am this morning I will be on Nicky Campbell’s show on
Read the full article…
The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: a pre-Budget summary
Monday, March 4th, 2024The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 and the Budget In anticipation of the UK budget this week, I thought it important to provide a summary of
Read the full article…
The Tory view of British values
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024Rishi Sunak spoke yesterday of the need for the government, police and others to stand up against those who oppose British values. But, just what
Read the full article…
Tax havens exist to undermine democracy. They are a fundamental threat to our way of life.
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024Not long after I first began to work on tax haven reform more than twenty years ago I realised that the problem that these places
Read the full article…