According to the Office for National Statistics release on the December 2021 government finances, published yesterday, this happened: That’s an extraordinary increase in interest payments
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Total government losses to error and fraud are not £29bn as Lord Agnew suggested – they are much bigger than that, and they turn a deliberate blind eye to it
Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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There is room for further stock market falls
Share prices are tumbling this week. And so they should. This is the Shiller price ratio for the S&P 500 in the US but the
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Companies House: still seeing no issues and asking no questions
I have already this morning noted the resignation of government minister Lord Agnew in frustration at his own failure to get government departments to take
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Lord Agnew: a case where resignation was the only option left when government refuses to act
Lord Agnew quit as the government minister responsible for tackling fraud, with a brief crossing the Treasury and Cabinet Office, yesterday. He had given no
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Johnson may yet fight an ugly rearguard action
Political speculation abounds on whether Johnson can survive. It is apparent that the consensus is that he cannot. But let me offer a word of
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Sunak is Chancellor, but clearly not grown up enough to accept the responsibility for being so
The trend within this government for ministers to deny responsibility for their actions is growing: https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1485353895182409735?s=20 Now Sunak is saying “It wasn’t me who wanted
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Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland has to go
I was pleased to note these headlines in an email from The National in Scotland over the weekend: The David Simpson referred to in the
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If the police at No 10 can give damning evidence to Sue Gray why can’t the Met bring a case against Johnson?
This is from the front page of the Telegraph today: So, there were police officers on duty at the time that parties took place in
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