Even if the headlines weren’t hogged by the ongoing Brexit votes, what could the Chancellor really announce?
Making Britain better post-Brexit will mean tough decisions about priorities. And that requires the Conservatives to know who their people are.
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.
The prospect of millions of families losing out financially makes ministers jittery – as, presumably, those briefing the press intend.
“Austerity” has been blurred and misused as a term. If everyone takes its end as a promise of whatever they fancy, it will soon get costly and risky.
A by-product of people preparing for a leadership race is a search for new and popular policies.
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.
He might need to read up on his new boss’s record a little more closely.
It might please nurses, but provokes new pay demands from teachers, doctors and soldiers. Nor would a hypothecated ‘NHS Tax’ make the issue go away.
The Chancellor dismisses the Opposition as “Eeyores” while declaring himself “positively tigger-like” about the prospects for the economy.
Why he believes Brexit will make life harder for Putin. Plus: Can Hammond hold course in today’s Spring Statement? And how does faith fit into public life?
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.
Our mini-series this week revealed points of broad consensus and points of approaching conflict on the centre right in terms of how the tax burden is distributed.
There is room in the Budget to allow Hammond a fair amount of leeway to act. Here’s our plan.