The real scandal of HS2
As if the saga of HS2 could not get any worse, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander will reportedly announce today that,…
The Welfare Bill is too little, too late
How much of the government’s Welfare Reform Bill will survive the mauling of backbench Labour MPs? If this bill even…
Rachel Reeves’s Spending Review is a recipe for trouble
Rachel Reeves will apparently tell us today that she has chosen stability over chaos. It is one of the Chancellor’s…
Sizewell C won’t save Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband has suddenly realised that you cannot run an electricity grid on intermittent renewables alone. The Energy Secretary’s announcement…
Cut the Border Force budget
Whatever happened to the great promise to ‘smash’ the smuggling gangs? When it came to power just under a year…
Could the Winter Fuel Payment fiasco bring down Rachel Reeves?
When the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that she was withdrawing the Winter Fuel Payment from most pensioners on the same…
Labour won’t win back the north with new trams
So now we know how Labour intends to try to head-off the threat from Reform UK. It is going to…
It will take more than 3% to make Britain ‘battle ready’
Does anyone really think that spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence would make Britain ‘battle-ready’, as Keir Starmer…
Net zero is a gift to Nigel Farage in Scotland
It wasn’t long ago that Nigel Farage seemed a hopeless sell in Scotland. In 2013, on his way to campaign…
Starmer’s welfare cuts are nothing like ‘Tory austerity’
Keir Starmer has already folded on the winter fuel payment, promising a partial reversal of the policy by reinstating it…
Don’t pay the junior doctor Danegeld
Who would have guessed that caving into union militancy and paying a whacking above-inflation pay rise, with no strings attached,…
Is Rachel Reeves prepared to raise taxes?
Some of the most infamous words in politics are ‘read my lips, no new taxes’ – uttered by George H.W.…
Reform is now a left-wing party
How much longer are Reform’s critics going to be able to get away with calling it a right-wing party? It…
Britain is enjoying another Brexit dividend
Has there ever been a day when Brexit seemed such a good idea? The story of Brexit began to change…
Is it any surprise doctors are trying their luck with more strikes?
Did anyone really think that the incoming Starmer government was going to appease the public sector unions for long by…
Only now are Britain’s high streets busier than before Covid
Finally, in a horrible week for Rachel Reeves which has seen inflation surge, the public finances take a dive and…
Miliband’s 2030 clean power target looks increasingly impossible
The answer, according to Ed Miliband in an infamously toe-curling rendition of the Bob Dylan song, is blowing in the…
Is Britain heading for bankruptcy?
We can thank Rachel Reeves for one thing: setting up a real-world experiment to show the Laffer curve in action.…
Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn is a big mistake
One of Keir Starmer’s first mistakes in office was to remove the winter fuel allowance from all pensioners other than…
Thank God Angela Rayner isn’t Chancellor
Rachel Reeves may have killed off growth with her raid on employers’ National Insurance contributions, but today comes a reminder…
Rachel Reeves is to blame for the 3.5% inflation spike
There is no positive spin to be put on this morning’s inflation figures, which show the Consumer Prices Index (CPI)…
Miliband’s wind farms won’t ease Britain’s sky-high energy prices
Rachel Reeves is perhaps not a great fan of Donald Trump, but she should be grateful to him nonetheless, and…
Under Labour, Britain is living beyond its means
The bleak future of the UK’s public finances can be summed up in a few statistics. For the financial year…
Rachel Reeves’s war on family businesses
The Environmental and Rural Affairs select committee is surely right that the government imposed the inheritance tax changes on farmland…
Is it any surprise junior doctors want more money?
If the government was deliberately trying to encourage union militancy, it could not be making a better job of it.…
