Control the controllables. So provide assistance, ease the pain, reverse the tax hikes, explain why – and focus on a pro-growth strategy.
Our columnist provides the third piece in our series this week about Brexit – almost a year since the end of transition.
The Chancellor’s team reportedly wants to cut it from 20 per cent to 19 per cent in 2023. Here’s why that wouldn’t be a good idea.
If the Government wants to protect our long-term macroeconomic future, this is the correct step to take.
The Chancellor extolled principles that point to the possibility of meaningful pro-growth reform of how revenues are raised.
Billions have already been briefed in advance of today’s budget, as if Britain were a country with a healthy budget surplus.
We can still be another Israel or South Korea, if we decide a strategy and stick to it.
We must get both borrowing and debt down so that, faced with a future pandemic, war or crisis, we can properly respond.
The Chancellor will have have more money to play with than was forecast. How he uses these additional resources will tell us a great deal about his priorities.
We should pause for breath, inject some rational thinking and consider the alternatives before it’s too late.
The first piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.
The problem is that spiralling spending demands quickly use up the options which voters don’t notice. Eventually you need other big sources of revenue,
Investment in this infrastructure can create thousands of jobs and opportunities in new areas.
Both the short and long term implications of this rise are baleful. Demography is destiny – and the Government should act.
Now that we are hopefully returning to something approaching normality, we must focus back on the core issue of driving growth and investment.