Kate Andrews

What can Rishi learn from the EU’s plummeting inflation rate?

1 November 2023 12:10 am

Good headlines are coming out of the Eurozone this morning, as the inflation rate slowed to 2.9 per cent in…

Rishi’s smoking ban inspired me to light a cigarette

28 October 2023 9:00 am

What has Rishi Sunak’s government achieved in its first year? The highlights include a renegotiated Brexit policy and setting more…

Pressure is mounting for Jeremy Hunt to find tax cuts

20 October 2023 9:12 pm

Timing is a funny thing. The Chancellor received some good news about the public finances this morning, just when everyone…

Has inflation stuck?

18 October 2023 8:04 pm

‘As we have seen across other G7 countries, inflation rarely falls in a straight line,’ said Chancellor Jeremy Hunt this…

Say goodbye to tax cuts?

17 October 2023 9:25 pm

‘We are in a horrible fiscal bind’ says the Institute for Fiscal Studies this morning, as it publishes its Green Budget…

As oil prices rise, the permacrisis continues

13 October 2023 11:22 pm

It was a year ago this weekend that Liz Truss sacked her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, over the fallout of their…

Is the IMF right to be this pessimistic about the UK economy?

10 October 2023 11:35 pm

The International Monetary fund has published its biannual World Economic Outlook report – and it’s more bad news for the UK. While…

Labour’s grand plan? More borrowing

10 October 2023 1:17 am

Rachel Reeves’s speech at Labour party conference was an attempt to show how the party’s economic strategy differs from the…

Is Mitt Romney behind Akshata Murthy’s appearance?

5 October 2023 12:55 am

Is Akshata Murthy using the Ann Romney playbook? Rishi Sunak’s wife made an unexpected appearance on the main stage at…

Jeremy Hunt: we underestimated the impact of money-printing

4 October 2023 3:13 am

Speaking at the Centre for Policy Studies fringe event at Conservative party conference this afternoon, Jeremy Hunt reiterated once again…

How do I know I’m an adult? I’m given unsolicited feedback

30 September 2023 9:00 am

Adulthood was once determined by age, but now we’ve extended childhood far beyond the teenage years. If the government gets its…

Slow economic growth won’t help the Tories reduce the tax burden

29 September 2023 7:34 pm

The Office for National Statistics has released the UK’s quarterly national accounts this morning, which show growth in the second quarter of…

Welcome to ‘sick note Britain’

26 September 2023 11:54 pm

Is the country morphing into ‘sick note Britain’? According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the average…

Is Jeremy Hunt right that tax cuts are ‘virtually impossible’?

22 September 2023 11:17 pm

No one was expecting a big tax cut this year. Rishi Sunak’s government has been clear that 2023 is for…

Have interest rates finally peaked?

21 September 2023 11:33 pm

The Bank of England has voted to maintain interest rates at 5.25 per cent, rather than opt for a 15th…

Can Rishi Sunak afford a pre-election tax cut?

21 September 2023 7:26 pm

Will the government have room for tax cuts before an election? Politically, it’s thought to be non-negotiable that they must.…

UK set for highest inflation in G7 this year

19 September 2023 10:07 pm

You’d struggle to describe the start of 2023 as anything like ‘good economic times’. But according to the OECD’s economic outlook…

Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk

19 September 2023 12:46 am

Was Liz Truss a fiscal hawk inside No. 10? That is the rather startling claim made by the former prime…

Britain is heading for an autumn of discontent

15 September 2023 11:30 pm

Train drivers will strike for two days in the coming weeks, on 30 September and 4 October. These dates are…

Britain can’t just blame the weather for its moribund economy

13 September 2023 6:43 pm

Did GDP fall in July because of the wet weather? That’s the argument being made this morning, as the Office…

Is Britain getting a pay rise?

12 September 2023 6:34 pm

Whisper it, but British workers seem to be getting a pay rise. This morning’s update from the Office for National Statistics reveals…

Can Liz Truss rewrite history?

12 September 2023 2:26 am

Last week’s anniversary of Liz Truss entering Downing Street could have passed by quietly. But the Trussites had other ideas.…

Broken Britain: what went wrong?

9 September 2023 9:00 am

Who broke Britain?

Is the Bank of England done with raising rates?

7 September 2023 3:45 am

Is the UK set for its 15th consecutive interest rate hike later this month? Markets expect that rates will peak…