May’s decision to close down the Business Advisory Group has implications for Hammond
The Treasury is not – and should not be – in charge of the Brexit process.
The Treasury is not – and should not be – in charge of the Brexit process.
We present chapter and verse of seven ways in which Project Fear’s short-term warnings have turned out to be mistaken.
The need for extra resources will not go down a storm with Hammond. But if we want a system that is effective, fair and trusted, we should resource it accordingly.
“George Osborne now finds himself trapped by the decisions he has already taken and the dividing lines he himself created.”
“The cuts proposed are huge: the departments are asked to cut up to 40 per cent… Neither the Treasury nor the departments believe this is the real number.”
“Within a few months of the election the Treasury and two other departments tried take foreign students out of the migration statistics altogether.”
The Cabinet Office could provide the structure – while a new department would be a costly distraction.
There is no prospect for reform unless Britain votes to leave and forces a new agenda on Europe’s elites.
How can the Chancellor keep a straight face while spouting this nonsense?
The new Work and Pensions Secretary must reclaim it as a tool for improving living standards, rather than accept its current form as a Treasury-led cost cutting plan.
Young doctors have been wickedly misled by the BMA to break the Hippocratic Oath – although one in five has had the bravery to cross the picket lines.
The Treasury’s record of financial forecasting is dire, even on issues where it hasn’t been politically committed to one side of the debate.
Despite what the Chancellor would have you believe, it didn’t really raise an extra £8 billion in its first year.
They ought to be an important opportunity for the Government to quicken the pace and improve the quality of reform.
The Welsh businesses which have banded together to exploit the tax advantages of multinationals could be pioneers for big society, small-government activism.