Don’t blame the OBR for Britain’s economic woes
We can’t spend more without taxing more and we can’t tax less without spending less.
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How the OBR became the Department for Austerity
Governments should not use economic forecasts as a cover for political choices.
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Tory MPs attack the OBR at their peril
The lesson of the Truss debacle is that an antagonistic approach to institutions can spook the markets.
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Ireland booms while Brexit Britain whimpers next door
While Joe Biden visits Ireland, Brexiteers said their closest EU neighbour would be “doomed” – now it’s set to be…
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Jeremy Hunt didn’t fix anything
The Budget did nothing to address the UK’s fundamental problems: Brexit and a deeply unequal economy.
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Jeremy Hunt’s economic optimism will collide with voters’ realities
Telling people that things are getting better while they still feel worse off is always a risky strategy.
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The myth of the “fiscal black hole” has been exposed
How did a £70bn “hole” become a £30bn “surplus”? The answer is that we’re doing economic policy wrong.
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Is any Tory capable of feeling shame?
Liz Truss is merely the latest senior Conservative to blame everyone but herself for the damage inflicted on the country.
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Leader: Why we need honesty on migration
Successive governments have relied on high migration to disguise the structural weaknesses of the British economy.
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What’s wrong with the British economy?
Our leaders have had no strategy and no vision of the country’s place in a deglobalising, post-Brexit landscape.
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