Plus: Bad Tory language. Cutting VAT, Good Conservative news for workers. And: a second referendum – not a People’s Vote but a Cheater’s Vote.
For councils – unlike others in the public sector – austerity has been real. It is ending. But planning powers are being diminished.
The despondent faces of grown-up people on the Labour benches suggested they know his measures will be very hard to oppose.
“Now we have reached a defining moment on this, long, hard journey. Opening a new chapter in our country’s economic history.”
“The approach that I’m going to be setting out tomorrow is based on the assumption, as is the OBR’s report, of a deal being done with the European Union.”
Not only are Business Rates too high,but the system of appeals to the Valuation Office is too complicated and remote.
An ominous calm reigned and one half expected the Prime Minister to choose a hymn to match.
In the first article of a new mini-series, the economist urges the Chancellor to deploy the savings and revenues secured by leaving the EU.
£2.6 billion of the sum the government accepted as the compensation owed has still not been paid.
Under the current regime, the tax avoidance measure is to simply hang onto the property until death. The Chancellor should fix that flaw.
The Comprehensive Spending Review has to be seen as a way to reset the narrative. Government need to focus on reform as a positive – not expenditure.
What is the Defence Secretary up to? Why now? And is the extraordinary threat he is reported to have made true?
There is zero chance that the public are going to back any meaningful reform of the service any time soon.
The Vote Leave director is the onlie begetter of this cashfest. But we’ve said it before and say it again: Britain can’t tax its way to prosperity – or a better health service.
After our recent series asked ‘What should Tories tax?’, the Adam Smith Institute’s Head of Research kicks off a new mini-series seeking routes to lower taxes.