Because so much of the Budget was trailed in advance, the initial impact of it may be seen as neutral. It’s not. The Red Book ...

Britain needs a real debate about how we can genuinely get the cost of living under control Fundamental economic issues are ...

The ‘Mansion Tax’ overloads the top of an already squeezed market. Given how high stamp duty can rise, it may even trap families into property that has risen in value where there are no inexpensive ...

Bin aversion also tells us something about the broader decline of civic ambition. Victorian Britain built public lavatories, ...

This matters because scaleups are the real engines of sustained economic growth. They create high-skilled jobs, drive exports ...

A Budget ought to embody three crucial Cs: clarity, coherence and certainty. The latter is not always easy. For obvious ...

It’s hard to disagree with Lewis Goodall that the current Labour Government faces a ‘late 1970s’ moment. Productivity is ...

It is time to fix this paralysis. As the independent report outlines, a cumbersome system of regulation, combined with a ...

It appears that the Government is going to freeze rail fares for the coming year. This is a strange policy. Economists should ...

We know these rules will fail to improve Britain’s finances because they have failed for almost 30 years, regardless of ...

The more familiar one grows with British politics, the more one is struck by a strange paradox: that so many people put in so ...

These results are damning for Britain, which has suffered a catastrophic decline in welfare performance. According to the ...