The big news of the morning is that the economy hit the election headlines yesterday. It hardly featured in 2017. It has already done so
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The Brexit Party has suggested that inheritance tax should be abolished. Inheritance tax is charged almost entirely on death. It is usually charged at 40%
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I am pleased to be a signatory to this letter organised by Rethinking Economics: Dear Economics Professors and Teaching Staff, Banks and their role in
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Great to see this in the Co-operative Party general election manifesto launched yesterday: The Party’s MPs sit under the Labour banner. I was until very
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I contributed to this tax manifesto published by Tax Justice UK yesterday. I stress, it’s their manifesto, not mine, but I share enough of it to
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Two articles in the Guardian grabbed my attention. One is on his visit to Scotland today: Johnson’s visit comes on the second day of the
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The Guardian reports this morning that: A majority of the UK public and almost half of Conservative voters support a radical plan to transform the
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Tory borrowing since 2010 has been as follows: That is £86 billion a year on average. Compare this to Labour borrowing from 1997 to 2010:
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As the FT has reported this morning: Britain’s Labour party is planning to more than double the amount it would borrow for capital spending in
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