The fundamental problem is that costs are going up faster than we are getting more productive.
Critics have a point when they note that, so far, Ministers’ rhetoric has been appreciably more ambitious than its actions.
I was surprised to see Daniel Hannan argue that the Government is failing to distance itself from the EU.
The question is why the UK is being so timid. is it Johnson, ministers or the Blob? Let’s consider the options.
It was meant to be a home but has become the heart of government. With this split personality, no wonder a frat house culture took hold of it.
We cannot be the tax cutters we were in the 1980s because we are now an older country than we were then.
In the early days of his premiership, Johnson asked me how she had done things. Here’s what I said.
Control the controllables. So provide assistance, ease the pain, reverse the tax hikes, explain why – and focus on a pro-growth strategy.
Any solution to the divide between authority to order lockdowns and responsibility for paying for it must mean more accountability, not less.
By using sugar tax funds, it could greatly alleviate some of the difficulties in schools across the country.
Here are three measures the Department of Education should take to stop this from happening.
If the Government wants to protect our long-term macroeconomic future, this is the correct step to take.
The amendment doesn’t require more spending – just regular estimates of the staff that should be trained in each speciality.
Last week, one of the many dangers of such a project became clear: the possibility of its use for rampant paternalism.
We must extract more domestic gas, stop importing more untaxed electricity – and turbo-charge new nuclear power.