Public sector payback time
Its awards consume roughly a quarter of public spending. It is hard to see where the tax hikes or spending scaleback to fund them will come from if the Chancellor sticks to his guns.
Posts Tagged: Standard of Living
- Control migrant numbers – or extremists flourish. Germany’s election lesson for May and Corbyn.
- Nicky Morgan: May’s Florence Speech 1) It was good – pragmatic and overdue. Now we must stop banging on about Europe.
- Helen Harrison: May’s Florence speech 2) It was bad – and activists must speak out against these feeble, careerist, pro-Remain ministers
- To salvage her Brexit policy, May must now ensure that her government is ready for No Deal. Or it won’t last.
- Simon Clarke: The case for lifting the national bar on onshore wind
- Labour deliberately muddies the water about how much its policies would cost
- WATCH: McDonnell pledges to buy out PFI contracts
- WATCH: McDonnell – “We can use the state to help shape Britain’s future in this new world”
- What they really think about Corbyn 1) Keir Starmer
- WATCH: Thornberry’s Labour conference stand-up routine