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Posts Tagged: debt

Steve Barclay: A balanced Budget which ensures that Britain is fit for the future

It continues to clear the deficit, prepare for Brexit, and back our businesses with the support they need to boost productivity.

By Steve Barclay MP | 23 November 2017 | 9 comments

WATCH: McDonnell flounders when grilled on his plan for nationalisations and higher borrowing

The Shadow Chancellor doesn’t know the current cost of debt interest.

22 November 2017 | 30 comments

The key forecasts and pledges in the Autumn Budget

Hammond’s plan – from abolishing Stamp Duty for most first-time buyers, through to reforms to help Universal Credit recipients.

By Mark Wallace | 22 November 2017 | 49 comments

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.

By George Freeman MP | 20 November 2017 | 42 comments

Why pro-Leave MPs should prepare to back the Chancellor next week

Letting disagreements about Brexit leak into the Budget’s treatment could deal the Government irreparable damage – and voters much harm.

By Paul Goodman | 14 November 2017 | 120 comments

Ideas for the Budget 5) James Kirkup: Ditch the surplus target. Build new towns. Raise inheritance taxes and boost universal credit.

The Social Market Foundation isn’t tied to any party. We’re centrists – our advice and ideas on offer to anyone who wants to put common sense ahead of ideology.

By James Kirkup | 10 November 2017 | 43 comments

Howard Flight: Young people are better off than they were. But they face two specific problems.

Young people eat out, often several times a week – my fiancée and I could only afford to eat out once a month at most. They are also better paid, absolutely and relatively.

By Lord Flight | 30 October 2017 | 70 comments

The Radicrats or the Demicals – or how to create a Two Nations Party

The simultaneous creation and collapse of a new force has been written off an establishment failure. The truth is more interesting.

By Paul Goodman | 20 October 2017 | 56 comments

Is the Government prepared for the political pressures of a rise in interest rates?

Not only would many borrowers feel pain, but the Opposition might well be tempted to seize the chance to pile on the pressure.

By Mark Wallace | 17 October 2017 | 70 comments

Richard Short: Student loans – change the title, change the narrative

We need to look at the write-off threshold more than the repayment threshold or bottom line fees to make a difference that young graduates can relate to.

By Richard Short | 14 October 2017 | 66 comments

Reconstructing May 2) No panic announcement on tuition fees. But a proper medium-term plan.

Our take is that what matters to students at least as much as their finances in the future is their finances now. Miinisters should mull a universal maintenance loan.

By Paul Goodman | 30 September 2017 | 22 comments

Lord Ashcroft: The general election. How the Conservatives damaged their reputation for competence without gaining one for compassion.

Nearly everything believed to exercise Labour more than the Tories was also named more often as a priority for “me and my family” than for Britain as a whole.

By Lord Ashcroft | 30 September 2017 | 85 comments

Ryan Shorthouse: Universities have enjoyed a leap in funding – vice-chancellors must act responsibly in return

It is wrong for those at the top to take advantage of the generosity of government, students, and other, far less well-remunerated, academic staff.

By Ryan Shorthouse | 21 September 2017 | 15 comments

Students and money. Let’s help them with their current costs – not fixate on their future ones

A review of student finance, to report before Brexit, would be a better way of proceeding than panic announcements at next month’s Party Conference.

By Paul Goodman | 10 September 2017 | 74 comments

Richard Ritchie: Was the election result really such a disaster for the Conservatives?

By 2022, Corbyn will no longer look ‘new’, and that he came close to winning in 2017 should mean that he will then be exposed to far greater scrutiny,

By Richard Ritchie | 3 September 2017 | 114 comments

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