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 those wanting a slightly more Scottish spin on the Budget, this was my interview for The National, yesterday:

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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This video is a little unusual. It is a recording of what I said on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday. We’ve
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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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Budget days have always been busy in my life, and yesterday was no exception. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s leak changed the course of the
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Rachel Reeves says her budget delivers stability. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s charts tell a very different story. High interest rates, low investment, falling profitability,
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Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people,
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