If you listen to the sober-sided, serious economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, or to the Chancellor Philip Hammond himself, you’d think the Conservative leadership election is a horrible bidding war of doolally spending promises from Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson. Has the party of sound money lost its…
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Article originally posted in The Telegraph. “Just answer the b****y question!” The heckler was a Conservative Party member, irritated at a candidate who wasn’t answering crisply enough at one of the leadership hustings. But it could have been anyone at home, yelling at the radio or the telly as yet…
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There’s an old saying that if you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion. But even so, most of them would agree that Britain’s economy doesn’t invest enough. We’re wedded to short-term consumer demand rather than investing in long-term growth like…
Read MoreWestminster is even madder than usual at the moment. The usual Brexit-mania has been given extra spice by the Conservative leadership contest as well. But it’s not just a ‘Westminster bubble’ issue; Jeremy vs Boris matters here in Weston and the villages too. On substance, there’s less between them than…
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